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Read via Audible (Narrated by John Sackville)
Reading Reflection Written August, 2022
I often feel as if I'm at war with time. When I’m in the trenches of completing an artwork, if I don't use an alarm on my phone, I'd completely lose track of time. If I worked on each artwork without limiting time, everything I created would be overworked and I would never be satisfied. I need time-restraints in my artist-tool-kit. I seem to gravitate more towards the rhetoric in this book on: light, symmetry, asymmetry, wavelengths and temperature. The timelines of religious institutions and their relationships with scientists throughout history is such a juicy topic, I have to take another bite of this in the future and look out for more books on this.
For me to truly think of the universe as multidimensional and without boundaries is a new exercise. My brain cannot compute even the most rudimentary physics terms in this book, let alone the distances discussed; ‘a million million kilometres times 60’, what a special kind of mindfuckery it is to think of these types of distances. Special numbers and imaginary numbers, now there’s something I might like to explore further when I have the headspace; there’s something sexy about this. Reading this book is the mental equivalent of arriving at the peak of a rollercoaster and feeling momentarily weightless followed by an intense gravitational force.
Read this book when you want an aggressively rough massage for your mind. Read again and again when you feel your life and world are closing in on you and you’re curious about the bigger and smaller picture.