Subject and object as poles in experience are precipitates of a certain saturated field of tensions. Or if precipitation is an inadequate metaphor say that they congeal or condense out of this field, in any case they arise as relatively stable in relation to their matrix. As a process this is a peripheral element in experience and one of the things that art can do is to bring it closer to the foreground of awareness without its becoming an object, which is impossible. When this happens a great amount of satisfaction and even a sense of power or sublimity is felt. Another analogy might be the electric field induced in a circuit when it enters into a stronger field; it is the same field, but now expressed as a difference that that does something. What is being expressed here, the field or the circuit? And what if the circuit is known to be itself constituted out of nothing but (congealed) electric fields?
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