Horizons

Horizon as a concept—I am quite fascinated by its symbolic overlays. There is so much in there. Our horizons change all the time: in a particular place, at a certain elevation, turned this way rather than that, a yearly season and time of the day, subjected to weather conditions, moving objects in our perceptual field, as well as the positive or negative affect — beautiful or ugly, serene or dangerous, sublime or plain, etc. — it might invoke in us. To this we also then add subjective factors such as physical capacities, states of mind, the presence of others, experience, knowledge, kinds of activities we are engaged in, attentiveness, and a host of other variables. In that sense, what Heraclitus said about not being able to step into the same river twice—can we do it even once?—could be equally stated about horizons. I’m really intrigued by an intersection of the objective and subjective, the temporal and the static, the finite and the infinite, the known and the unknown, that the idea of horizon represents.