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| Art historian David Stoband wrote about Henk G Kamsma: | |
| Reality appears unto us,
but
always because we make reality appear, and the manner in which we make
reality appear, influences the manner in which reality appears unto us".
This sentence, originally from a booklet on the phenomenology of
language, could be the motto of visual artist Henk G. Kamsma. It is
generally stated, perhaps even to the point of being a cliché, that
every visual artist implicitly or explicitly examines the perception of
reality. Kamsma does this quite explicitly...through his paintings. each
of his works of art comprehends this examination in optima forma. Kamsma gains inspiration from the reflections of phenomenalist Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961). Ambiguity has a major role in the philosophical reflections of this French philosopher. "No truth exists which can be captured for always, absolute truth cannot exist: an absolute truth is as unrealistic as an absolute untruth". Merleau-Ponty asserts that with the invisible, the visible is given, the ascertainment of where the visible and the invisible intersect, is what is existent. | |