Merleau-Ponty · Perception
The world always exceeds what can be said about it.
The body always arrives before the concept. We cross a street, feel its dampness and noise, and only later call it a city. Explanation steps away from experience, but never carries all of it away.
Simone Weil · Attention
To see is to surrender part of what we expect.
If looking only confirms what we already know, attention has not yet begun. It is closer to restraint: letting the answer arrive later, allowing what stands before us to remain outside a familiar explanation for a moment.
Aristotle · Technē
Form is not a vessel for thought. It is where thought happens.
I often begin to think only after I begin to make. Material resists, and what seemed like a complete idea begins to loosen. Technē may be this knowledge gained with the material, not before it.
Unwrought.
A question need not lead to an answer. It may lead instead to a form.