Seeing is Forgetting / Forgetting is Seeing

Make of yourself a stranger.

I came across a book about Robert Irwin, who has spent his life trying to make art that is difficult to photograph. The name of the book is Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees. ¹

This title so perfectly sums up the experience of both making and appreciating art. It also describes the experience of meditation.

Profound art is impossible to…