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To pick up a clay tablet inscribed and baked to preservation thousands of years ago is not merely to pick up an object. It is to hold a window into another world. It is a concrete manifestation of something that lies beyond your grasp. A world that is tangible yet imagined, right there in your hand, and yet so distant it might as well be light years away. It is a strange notion to hold something beyond in the palm of your hand.
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Once upon a time there was seven, a number unlike any other.
We have been following the story of the peculiar species I am calling homo explorans, the exploring human. We got to know them a bit better a couple of months ago when we visited their hall of fame; then most recently we considered a key aspect of their journey, when life leads into the Unknown as symbolised by the sea.
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Once upon a time there was a path, through the sea. French artist Camille Corot awaken us to this path:
“[…] The painter can and must tolerate everything, dare everything, risk everything; his field is immense, extends to everything, embraces everything, and has no limits except for the stupid and then the impossible.” (original emphasis)
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