"Heidegger spoke of two modes of existence: the everyday and the ontological. In the everyday mode we are consumed with and distracted by material surroundings---we are filled with wonderment about how things are in the world. In the ontological mode we are focused on being per se---that is, we are filled with wonderment that things are in the world. When we exist in the ontological mode---the realm beyond everyday concerns---we are in a particular readiness for personal change."
---Yalom, 2002, p. 127
Heidegger also said, "Whenever [great] art happens—that is, when there is a beginning—a push enters history, and history either starts up or starts again."
"That is, great art is capable of overcoming the inertia of existing traditions and moving the interconnected ontological and ethical wheels of history, either giving us a new sense of what is and what matters or else fundamentally transforming the established ontology and ethics through which we make sense of the world and ourselves."---Iain Thomson
These quotes describe why I created the Air Parade painting.
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