Transcendental Realism

How you do what you see
An act of perception is a synthesis of consciousness and object.  In the microuniverse represented by the act of perception, consciousness is not the object, but the negation of the object; the object is not consciousness, but the negation of consciousness.  From this mutual double negation, Negation 2, a true hieros gamos, or sacred marriage, there arises, as when a negative is multiplied by a negative, a positive act of perception, the new, Triune, you.

Words run through my head
Underlying all perception of objects or images, and particularly the meditative perception lavished on a work of art, like the basso continuo that sustains a melody, is the stream of conscious discourse that manifests a subject.  The ever present, ever changing subject is born along on a stream swollen by genetic, social, and cultural tributaries whose waters undergo a rarified transubstantiation into language and can be recorded as text.

Cubism resulted from the realization that you could look at an object in space from many perspectives and represent that object in a painting as a formal synthesis of those perspectives.  Transcendental realism was born of the realization that an act of perception is a synthesis of consciouness and object, and that this synthesis could be represented in a painting through the fusion of text (consciousness) and image (object), a fusion that on the aesthetic level opens up all of the formal possibilities available when text is fused with music.