Talk with my dad…(about infinity)

I asked my dad in 1994, how come I (or anyone) can’t comprehend infinity? How do I even imagine not being able to comprehend something, or ever will be able to, ever?

His response was twofold.
One was, imagine a square, everything that mankind will ever comprehend is in this square, infinity is outside of this square.
The other was, try to imagine something that is not. Not because of a lack of sensory perception but a thing that simply isn’t.

I started to write this quote on the empty white panel : “iets anders dan zijn” means “something else than to be”. Then I added the coordinates of where this conversation took place: 50.34951973260737, 5.395870696607489.

The rest of the texts are ones I took from a book I was reading “Vita Contemplativa” by Byung-Chul Han.
A book about the role of inactivity in our daily lives. He quotes various writers and philosophers.

For instance from Friedrich Hölderlin:

“Verloren ins weite Blau, blick ich oft hinauf an den Äther und hinein ins weite Meer.”

“Lost in the vast blue, I often gaze up at the ether and into the wide sea.”

Hyperion (1797 & 1799)

This one gave shape to the sealike appearance of the painting.

After this I started responding to what was on the panel, and hiding / showing those reactions…