Monday 28 May 2012

Tuesday 15 May 2012

Fires without light VII









Now if words - which have
meaning only as a result of a human convention - are enough to make
us think about things that do not resemble them in any way, why is
it not possible that nature may also have established a particular sign
which would make us have the sensation of light, even though such a
sign contains nothing in itself that resembles the sensation?
Rene Descartes 








All drawings without title, 2012




by 



Nicole Page-Smith




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Wednesday 9 May 2012

Fires without light VI










Thus I undertook to explain in it reasonably fully only
what I understood about light and, at the same time, to add something
about the sun and the fixed stars, because most light results from them;
about the skies, because they transmit the light; about the planets,
comets and the earth, because they reflect it; and in particular about
all the bodies that are on earth, because they are either coloured,
transparent or luminous; and, finally, about human beings, because
they are the perceivers of light.
Rene Descartes









All drawings without title, 2012

by 

Nicole Page-Smtih









Friday 4 May 2012

Fires without light V








Thus allow your thought to go outside this world, for a short time,
to come to see a completely new world that I shall bring to life before 
you in imaginary spaces. The philosophers tell us that these spaces are
infinite; they should be believed in this case, because they themselves 
invented them. But lest this infinity impede and burden us, let us not
try to go to its limits; let us only go far enough so that we can lose
sight of all the creatures that God created five or six thousand years 
ago. And when we have come to a stop there, in some determinate
place, let us suppose that God creates anew all around us so much
matter that, in whatever direction our imagination may be able to
stretch, it would no longer perceive any place in it that is empty.
Rene Descartes









All drawings without title, 2012

by

Nicole Page-Smith