Perspective, as we have discovered, seems to include and exude an essence of allowing the sense of the facts or truth to be evident in our lives. As we are willing to look at the facts of something, then in a sense things are not personal because facts do not center in personal opinions or concepts or ideas, facts are well, facts…interesting.
A book is a book, a desk is a desk, etc., these are facts that let us see without it being personal. When we include the fact that the book was handed down from our mother and that it was written by her mother then one could possibly have an attachment to that so that now the value of this book has changed in our mind and in fact our heart!
What the description here is alluding to is that by looking deeper into those ordinary things in our daily lives we seem to begin to realize that there are elements that actually shift the way we see things. It is of course what makes life interesting because as our ideas and concepts change so do the things around us! If we are happy guess what? If we are sad, guess what?
So Leonardo, I sense, had a perspective on his work and his life in a way that he was extremely interested and had a passion to discover how things were put together, in essence how was life formed, and in his search he was willing and needed to forego a lot of what was the conceptual and abiding ideas of the time. Most of which ideas were promulgated by the church and its views at the time, and more than likely because it desired the influence over people’s lives so that it could build an empire of its own making.
Hmmm. This sounds a bit like today’s world! So, how is it that we can begin to see more clearly, or in other terms, to begin to put together the interrelated elements that are working at this time so that the answers to certain questions can come for us to solve our design questions, or in fact our life questions if we want to move in that direction?
What questions did Leonardo want to find answers to? What questions do we want to find answers to?
Stay tuned, I do believe that we are still attempting to discover something more about design!
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