Christine McCormack

Once we could see only “as far as the eye can see….”.
Now we can utilise modern technology as it continues to evolve, giving us ever more chances to extend our human powers beyond their physical limits.

While our imagination still offers us far more scope in which to safely explore other realms, the visual results mainly conform to a set of laws involving outcomes which we can usually comprehend - and being human, we tend to respond within and not too far beyond the long established boundaries of recognisable colours, shapes and forms.

As yet, we still cannot sense as insects and other lifeforms here on earth do.

We exist on a familiar planet under mostly familiar circumstances. Common sense tells us that this is our purpose - and in coping with that, we create and construct environments that enable us to endure and flourish within the ongoing cycles of the planet.

But just when we are lulled into a false sense of security, assuming that “things will ever be so”- come the Sudden Impacts in life - illness, bereavement and devastation.

They cause us to halt all our commonplace musings, forcing us to re-evaluate the consequences of a now unfamiliar world and the Void which we may face within it.

We name things in order to help chart and tame an unfamiliar territory. We seek to make it more familiar, filling it with named and useful things, intending to endure with them in a timeless cohesion.

Relying on our own sense of significance in the eternal scheme of things, we follow in the ritual footsteps of our ancestors, bequeathing all these named things to future generations, hoping against the odds that they will still have relevance and their meaning and purpose will be entirely understood.