Hegel then Nietzsche

In the documentary Painters Painting, Willem de Kooning said, “Never ask an artist about ideas; artists aren’t good with ideas.” Perhaps he meant ideas are too encompassing, too restrictive. An idea is defined, embodied, and purposeful. Thoughts on the other hand are spontaneous and can open one’s imagination to the dynamic, intuitive, and often chaotic interaction between a medium and its limitations. This book is a collection of visual images that are thoughts about ideas. The book is not meant to be a polemic; rather, it asks whether philosophic truths can be revealed in a nondiscursive form rather than by argument alone—and what that revelation might look like.