Beginning today, my Painter of the Week feature will take the summer off. Replacing it will be a series of daily blog entries: "Essay of the Day." In each, I will offer a brief history (in reverse chronological order, from 1980 to the present) of something I wrote for a periodical or for a book. Whenever available, I will also provide a link to an online version.First up, "Photo-graphy-sythesis." The first of three essays that appeared in Georgia Review, this was a spin-off of themes pursued in my dissertation (1978) that was also very much a product of mid-1970s LSD period. Using Owen Barfield's brilliant essay "The Harp and the Camera," it essentially argued that the eye, the physical eye, is the genetrix of poetry--that imagination has a biological basis.
Photo-graphy-synthesis is now available in a Kindle book, The Ventriloquist and Other Essays on Imagination and the Evolution of Consciousness.
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