The Student, The Fish, and Agassiz A Short Story by Samuel H. Scudder & Buster Benson busterbenson.com Fish: a tap essayLooking Closely is EverythingOne brickField Notes on Science and Nature seeingattentiondiscovery
In a state of reverberation Irwin's terms of sudden, physical realization – bam! – call to mind the suddenly enlightening Zen slap or rap on the forehead. It also calls to mind [Philip Guston]'s own remark..."Look at any inspired painting...it's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation." Reverberation is another way of suggesting a kind of sudden, energetic, physical experience. Philip Guston, Robert Irwin: A Conditional Art I have pacified your mindIt's dark outsideScraps of the brocade of autumn zenartunderstanding