Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Flowers and question mark

This piece revolves around Socrates' idea that we know nothing. I feel that we should always be questioning things and be open to new ideas. How do we know what we think we know is right? We don't. I feel that asking questions and learning as much as we possibly can is the best way to live our lives. "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." (Aristotle) When we start to accept things as they are fed to us, we close our minds to all the other possibilities that are out there. I used an app on my phone to write out some of my ideas about knowledge and then I manipulated the words to form a question mark. I left some of the letters out of the question mark to bring a sense of ambiguity to the table, which reenforces the idea of not knowing.

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