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The third category of symbols displayed in the show is that of personal symbols. Personal realities generate personal symbols. Human beings exist in what William James called “a mulitplicity of realities.” Shared realities, such as political, social and religious realities, tend to settle upon a conventional store of symbols. Communication requires it. Personal symbols have no such constraints and represent the idiosyncracies sedimented over a single life. The fact that symbols do arise even in the context of a solitary mind suggests that realities need to find representation in their co-inhabitants.
Two works in the show attempt to gather such symbols into works of art. And both, interestingly enough, are accompanied by written explanations.
“The Dream of the Five Moons,” by Laurie Marshall, is a small oil of a
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