"If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf."
- Buckminster Fuller

trans⋅par⋅ent

- adj.
1. having the property of transmitting rays of light through its substance so that bodies situated beyond or behind can be distinctly seen.
2. admitting the passage of light through interstices.
3. so sheer as to permit light to pass through; diaphanous.
4. easily seen through, recognized, or detected.
5. manifest; obvious.
6. open; frank; candid.
7. shining through, as light.

trans⋅lu⋅cent

- adj.
1. permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible.
2. easily understandable; lucid.
3. clear; transparent.

"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."
- Henry Miller

"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow."
- Aesop

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
- Aristotle

"If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms."
- Henry Miller

im⋅pli⋅cate

- verb
1. to show to be also involved, usually in an incriminating manner.
2. to imply as a necessary circumstance, or as something to be inferred or understood.
3. to connect or relate to intimately; affect as a consequence.
4. to fold or twist together; intertwine; interlace.

in⋅volve

- verb
1. to include as a necessary circumstance, condition, or consequence; imply; entail.
2. to engage or employ.
3. to affect, as something within the scope of operation.
4. to include, contain, or comprehend within itself or its scope.
5. to bring into an intricate or complicated form or condition.
6. to bring into difficulties.
7. to cause to be troublesomely associated or concerned, as in something embarrassing or unfavorable.
8. to combine inextricably.
9. to implicate, as in guilt or crime, or in any matter or affair.
10. to engage the interests or emotions or commitment of.
11. to preoccupy or absorb fully.
12. to envelop or enfold, as if with a wrapping.
13. to swallow up, engulf, or overwhelm.
14. a. to roll, surround, or shroud, as in a wrapping.
b. to roll up on itself; wind spirally; coil; wreathe.

in⋅sti⋅gate

- verb
1. to cause by incitement; foment.
2. to urge, provoke, or incite to some action or course.

in⋅cite

- verb
1. to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action.

in⋅spire

- verb
1. to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence.
2. to produce or arouse.
3. to fill or affect with a specified feeling, thought, etc.
4. to influence or impel.
5. to animate, as an influence, feeling, thought, or the like, does.
6. to communicate or suggest by a divine or supernatural influence.
7. to guide or control by divine influence.
8. to prompt or instigate by influence, without avowal of responsibility.
9. to give rise to, bring about, cause, etc.
10. to take into the lungs in breathing; inhale.
11. a. to infuse by breathing.
b. to breathe into or upon.

"To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body."
- Jean-Luc Godard

o⋅ver⋅lord

- noun
1. a person who is lord over another or over other lords.
2. a person of great influence, authority, power, or the like.
- verb
3. to rule or govern arbitrarily or tyrannically; domineer.

o⋅ver⋅load

- verb
1. to load to excess; overburden.
- noun
2. an excessive load.

"Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age."
- William Blake

"There is something immoral about an object whose exact purpose one does not know."
- Jean Baudrillard

dem⋅i⋅urge

- noun
1. a. the artificer of the world.
b. a supernatural being imagined as creating or fashioning the world in subordination to the Supreme Being, and sometimes regarded as the originator of evil.

su⋅per⋅nat⋅u⋅ral

- adj.
1. of, pertaining to, or being above or beyond what is natural; unexplainable by natural law or phenomena; abnormal.
2. of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or attributed to God or a deity.
3. of a superlative degree; preternatural.
4. of, pertaining to, or attributed to ghosts, goblins, or other unearthly beings; eerie; occult.

pre⋅ter⋅nat⋅u⋅ral

- adj.
1. out of the ordinary course of nature; exceptional or abnormal.
2. outside of nature; supernatural.

su⋅per⋅fi⋅cial

- adj.
1. being at, on, or near the surface.
2. of or pertaining to the surface.
3. external or outward.
4. concerned with or comprehending only what is on the surface or obvious.
5. shallow; not profound or thorough.
6. apparent rather than real.
7. insubstantial or insignificant.

"What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!"
- H.P. Lovecraft

"Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification."
- Robert Smithson