Understanding is actually the meaning of every thing. Not until we comprehend things (grasp our understandings together) do they be-come real, physical objects ‘in time and space’. (It’s not just humans that do this – (we are not gods) – all things comprehend the difference between environments of understanding as ‘objects of concern’. These objects are the means and meaning of communication and language. In human speech, objects be-come simple shorthand signs for the immeasurable depth of the way things actually are in their (Our) singularity of understanding.
We things are actually environments of understanding, each constituted as the others – no thing more no thing less – by degree of under-standing. When we find something really beautiful, I think it may be because we glimpse in that moment of beauty the re-creation of ourself – as the other.
In this series of works I’m trying to make moments of beauty, symbols of deeper understanding.
Inasmuch as all the images have the same background colour (hex 212124) which is Flickr’s chosen background colour, the proper physical context of the works in this series is Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/stan_bonnars_artworks/
on the under-standing of ‘ice’ of ‘fire’
portrait of myself under-standing some things
on the under-standing of ‘horses’ of ‘the principle of the machine’
on the under-standing of ‘railway signals at Khoroshevesky’ of ‘cyclops long-beaked echidna’
from a photograph by Dmitry Ryzhkov
on the under-standing of ‘Captain Ahab’ of ‘Jonah’
on the under-standing of ‘lesser Bermuda land snail’ of ‘myself’
on the under-standing of ‘darkness’ of ‘light’
on the under-standing of ‘chainsaw blade’ of ‘mangrove finch’
on the under-standing of ‘sun’ of ‘moon’
on the under-standing of ‘lesser Bermuda land snail’ of ‘predators introduced’
on the under-standing of ‘Catlocarpio siamensis’ of ‘water management in general’
on the under-standing of ‘Clarias cavernicola’ of ‘water pumps in general’
on the under-standing of ‘Pygmy Three-toed Sloth’ of ‘endogamic depression’
on the under-standing of ‘Pink Fairy Armadillo’ of ‘the eight days’
on the under-standing of ‘Cylindraspis vosmaeri’ of ‘extiction’
on the under-standing of ‘Bearded seal’ of ‘myself’
on the under-standing of ‘Gallicolumba platenae’ of ‘timber harvesting in general’
on the under-standing of ‘crescent gambusia’ of ‘hotels in general’
on the under-standing of ‘moon’ of ‘sun’
on the under-standing of ‘mekong giant catfish’ of ‘hydroelectricity’
on the under-standing of ‘red wolf’ of ‘voyage of discovery’
on the under-standing of ‘chalk’ of ‘cheese’
on the under-standing of ‘writing’ of ‘meaning’
on the under-standing of ‘me’ of ‘you’
on the under-standing of ‘water’ of ‘air’
on the under-standing of ‘european eel’ of ‘extinction of myself’
on the under-standing of ‘fan mussel’ of ‘extinction of myself’
on the under-standing of ‘pygmy hippopotamus’ of ‘myself’
on the under-standing of ‘pygmy hippopotamus’ of ‘extinction’
on the under-standing of ‘north atlantic right whale’ of ‘myself’
on the under-standing of ‘oceanic whitetip shark’ of ‘as myself’
on the under-standing of ‘water’ of ‘life’
on the under-standing of ‘myself as aquilaria malaccensis’ of ‘extinction’
on the under-standing of ‘myself as bifurcaria galapagensis’ of ‘extinction’
on the under-standing of ‘species’ of ‘measurement’
on the under-standing of ‘myself as angelshark’ of ‘extinction’
on the under-standing of ‘melt water’ of ‘the polar bear’
on the under-standing of ‘extinction’ of ‘myself as gorilla beringei’
on the under-standing of ‘signal’ of ‘symbol’
on the under-standing of ‘the moment’ of ‘existence’
on the under-standing of ‘sacred’ of water’
on the under-standing of ‘the sky’ of ‘weather forecasts in general’
on the under-standing of ‘velocity’ of ‘flight’
on the under-standing of ‘harpoon’ of ‘sperm’
of the under-standing of ‘the speed of light’ of ‘Capt. James T. Kirk’
of the under-standing of ‘temporality’ of ‘time’
On the under-standing of ‘thing’ of understanding’
on the under-standing of ‘whether’ of ‘weather’
on the under-standing of ‘the set of traffic lights’ of ‘shades of red’
on the under-standing of ‘the oboe’ of ‘steel production in Greenland’
on the under-standing of ‘sight’ of ‘sound’
on the under-standing of ‘The Art Exhibition’ of ‘last Tuesday’s weather forecast’
on the under-standing of ‘Max Ernst’ of ‘The Elephant Celebes’
on the under-standing of ‘knowledge’ of ‘wisdom’
on the under-standing of ‘division’ of ‘subtraction’
on the under-standing of ‘walking’ of ‘talking’
on the under-standing of ‘square’ of ‘circle’
on the under-standing of ‘parsley butter’ of ‘fairground attractions in general’
on the under-standing of ‘brick’ of ‘manufacturing process’
on the under-standing of ‘is’ of ‘as’
on the under-standing of ‘football pitch’ of ‘beetle’
on the under-standing of ‘dawn light’ of ‘dewy grass’
on the under-standing of ‘time’ of ‘space’
on the under-standing of ‘war’ of ‘peace’
on the under-standing of ‘peace’ of ‘war’