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2. Landscape and Map: Experience and Form
To live is to move through a landscape — a continuous unfolding of sensations, impressions, and responses. The ground shifts, the light changes, the wind carries different scents; all of it composes a field of experience  that is immediate, undeniable, and alive. This is the terrain we inhabit long before we name it. But to orient within this field, we draw maps. We form concepts, stories, symbols — ways to compress the richness of the terrain into usable representations. The

Jakub Sohe
Oct 223 min read


1. The Encounter: Why We Look at Art
At the heart of any encounter with art lies a dynamic far older and more universal than art itself — the meeting of a subject, object, and the awareness that perceives their relation. Before there was painting or music, before there was even language, there was this — the moment of noticing. The moment where perception lingers, unprompted, on something that neither feeds nor threatens, yet compels us to stay. Art, in this sense, is not born from decoration or craft. It is bor

Jakub Sohe
Oct 62 min read


introduction: navigating pattern, singularity, and meaning
Human perception is a constant negotiation between expectation and novelty, pattern and singularity. We live in a world that is neither...

Jakub Sohe
Sep 212 min read


walking in the forest: fractals, trace, and presence
To walk in a forest is to enter a field where perception deepens. At first, the scene seems simple: trunks rise, branches fork, leaves...

Jakub Sohe
Sep 172 min read
journal entry II.
Space to be, quietness to embody, silence to spill, senses to let expand- contract- do its thing. I am willing to let my self wash over...

Jakub Sohe
Sep 141 min read


chaos, seeking and the archetypal core of meaning
Human perception is never passive. The brain is a pattern-finding engine, constantly scanning the world for order. At its foundation lie...

Jakub Sohe
Sep 102 min read
journal entry I.
That which is can be witnessed. That which can be witnessed can be named- encircled. That which is named can be dissected. That which is...

Jakub Sohe
Sep 61 min read
homework
Is there anything we as the humanity don't know in order to get our shit together and create something meaningful and generative/in...

Jakub Sohe
Sep 51 min read


the living mystery
God is the living mystery at the root of existence — not a being among beings, but Being itself: the depth dimension of reality, the...

Jakub Sohe
Sep 43 min read
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