Most people take “seeing” for granted.
In fact it is a “riddle”.

When we first learn to describe in words the things we see,
the real world is gradually replaced by “concepts”.
Our visual instinct for “direct perception”
weakens in the “labeling”, “objectifying” process of conceptualization.
What we are left with is usually nothing more
than a capacity to nominally identifying the “real” or the “abstract”. . .
Yet isn’t it possible that we could once again perceive the “coexistence of multiple visual experiences”?

In the world around us,
we may understand the “whole” from the “part”, and the “part from the “whole”,
but only if the “whole” and “part”
are allowed to verify the other unhindered.

If we could let go,
and unlearn the habit of classifying the “realistic” or the “abstract”,
would this not free us for the first time to enjoy our sense of sight?

I don’t know how to describe in words what “direct perception” is.
But we can perceive its existence through experience and the appearances of life.

Of creativity, we may say that it is usually born of chaos.
But at a certain point,
we must try to search for its intrinsic relationships,
and embody these in word or act.
Yet once doing so,
have we the wisdom to return to the chaos whence we came?