Your "not" plant, Day 19

When we look at things and apply names to them it starts to drive and filter are perceptions very rapidly.  Sometimes we have to use our eyes and minds differently to only see form or color.  To observe without mounds of interpretation we have to suspend our rational categories.  Artists learn to see this way.  They learn to forget "plant" or "tree" and just see shape, shades, areas, and colors.  Today, I want you to invert your brain a bit to reawaken you to form.  Imagine for a moment that all that is solid is space and all that is space is solid.  Look at your plant in this way.  Think of it as a space, as a gap and all else around it is solid.  What is its space?  It has no color?  It's just space.   All that surrounds is solid?  What is that solid's shape?  What has been carved away from it by your plant?  

Thinking about the world in this way is a bit disorienting at first. However, if you push through to a place where you feel that what is solid is space and what is space is solid, then your sense of form will radically shift.  You will see and sense form for the sake of form.  Your ability to hold objects in your imagination will become greatly enhanced if you do this regularly.