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Fires without light IX

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Nicole Page-Smith

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Fires without light VIII

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Nicole Page-Smith

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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

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Nicole Page-Smith

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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

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