Illumined Button
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Mystical, Spiritual, and Philosophical Texts, Transformed.
In 2018, the Philosophical Research Society's inaugural artist-in-residence, David Orr, photographed spiritual, mystical, and philosophical texts — often one-of-a-kind hand-printed and illuminated manuscripts — from our collections.
Once he made a photograph which captured the physical qualities of a particular book or text, he recombined it, creating an abstract form alluding to the worldview or mythology being represented while often obscuring the writing itself — evoking the ancient Daoist idea that “the deepest truths can never be captured by words alone.”
Each button features a different image from Illumined.
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