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Presentation of Self
I am only fully actual when determined in all of my parts, when I am the sum of all predicates that can be attributed to me. Only then I...

Richard Mather


Pond Life
If water is the primal origin of all things (as the ancient Greek sage Thales of Miletus supposed), then considering how hard it is to...

Richard Mather


Infinite Understanding
What fact makes a principle true? Quid Facti. That is the question.

Richard Mather


The Quality of a Quantum
I am nothing and you are nothing. but the relation between us isn’t nothing. Infinitesimally small differences establish the continuity...

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The Fact of Being Is Always True
Said the professor — I am in a vortex, a maelstrom, below the eye’s surface, standing on the abyssal plain, the fundament of all that is....

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The Original Sin
Original Sin: Our DNA a polymer implant from our worldly creator, Blake’s Urizen. Backbone sidechain nitrogen phosphate And a plastic...

Richard Mather


The Potato Eaters
Potato eaters – five peasant women, clothed in rags, seated round a square table in a brown room. The scene is set. Outside the frame,...

Richard Mather


Selected Fragments
Selected Fragments Tool-use If the hammer is a symbol Of the power of the hand, The hand is the product Of the need for a hammer. Horizon...

Richard Mather


Observations of Mountjoy Scott, the Earl of Ardenforde
Lord Ardenforde opens a jewellery box to reveal a platinum brooch, rhodium watch, immortal diamond choker; and on the quiltwork, a...

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Itself in Mind for the Future
We see the visible world as somehow inevitable, with all its ratios of movement & rest, its manifold shapes & ecstatic forms, not...

Richard Mather


Temple Curtain
"The temple curtain made of some heavy purple fabric, with its curious pleats ..."

Richard Mather


Leibniz’s Soul
What is amazing is not that my corpse was contracted and compressed into the earth’s dark matter (while my grave went unmarked and...

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Sky
It was at this point I stopped dreaming and looked at the sky and saw what seemed to me a mirage reflecting upon itself what it mirrored...

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When We Were There
When we were there in the crooked hell of that scarlet and black room, the world was a useless idol broken and beyond repair. But now we...

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Thought
Thought Putting aside the extensive facthood of properties and things distributed in space, one has to wonder whether existence’s sense...

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The Light in That Place
Photo credit: Rachel Posner / Posner Family Estate, courtesy of Shulamit Mansbach, Haifa, Israel / yadvashem.org “Our holiday has been...

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Krishna
Krishna Statue at the Sri Mariamman Temple (Singapore) Courtesy of AngMoKio / Wiki Maya clouds -- sattva, rajas and tamas -- Encircle...

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The World Is Folded in to Every Object
The world is folded in to every object And each thing or idea is the folding And unfolding of space, time and history. And the atom is...

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Tool-use
Tool-Use If the hammer is a symbol of the power of the hand, the hand is the product of the need for a hammer.

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Adam’s Descent
Adam is a dry rib but sinews are stretched, tissue and flesh fashioned. Man of Spirit, embodied. Descending the mountain with Moses, he...

Richard Mather
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