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Liam Murray
I make no hypothesis. The future always surprises.
Our predictions epitomise our own era. Borne from a desire to understand and illustrate the aspirations, anxieties or inadequacies of the time we live in, predictions can reveal more about the predictor than the predicted.
Metaphor offers meaning to experience and context to knowledge; it is a fundamental facility through which people make sense of their surroundings.
A telescope’s configuration of lenses goes some way to describing the intangible scale of Space, like chapters in a Bible attempt to describe the Heavens. Through the viewfinder we see in sharper contrast planets and galaxies swimming in the obscure darkness of Space. We can search there for hope, solace, peace and redemption. The limited field of the viewfinder may be seen as metaphor for the inadequacy of contemporary tenet.
All we view in the night sky is darkness and dots of light. We acknowledge norms of scientific and historical truth but question the limits of our own perceptions. The possibility of miracles seduce despite improbability. In this darkness, although we are actually viewing the distant past, a mythology of future in Space intrigues beyond all else.
Hypotheses Non Fingo
Image title: Hypotheses Non Fingo
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