A travel diary from the Arava and Negev deserts in Israel, spring 2023. I am wandering. For years, in my mind’s eye, I’ve been seeing myself trekking through the desert—through mountains of sand, a figure wrapped in cloths, always just moving on. Where this feeling comes from, I don’t know,...
In the search for the law of cause and effect in an exclusively external world, modern science has had incomparable success. No god, no spirit has been able to resist it. Mechanical laws are enough to explain everything. The technical achievements resulting from this new worldview have seemed like proof...
An excerpt of a lecture given at the opening of a Hilma af Klint exhibit at Lightforms in Hudson, New York, on March 8, 2020, by David Adams, Ph.D. When her mother died in 1920, af Klint felt more free to travel and in September began to undertake regular journeys...
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