Tuesday, March 8, 2011

"What is scary about being lost in a forest of tree upon tree, or lost in a city of street upon street, is catching a glimpse of yourself, from the point of view of the trees. It is the feeling of being watched, of being accompanied. And what are you seeing? What is seeing you? We can identify only a shadowy darkness. The dark openness gazes at us. We aren't exactly seeing ourselves in a mirror. We're seeing ourselves as the void that looks back at us, as if we looked in the mirror and saw a hooded figure, and underneath the hood was nothing. The uncanny path in the forest and the city goes round and round in circles" --Timothy Morton, The Ecological Thought.