Conatus: Optics is a limited numbered edition of 30, custom broadsheets designed by Marlene Lacey, featuring Walter Hildebrandt’s exploratory poem, Conatus.  Conatus is the latest publication for Hildebrandt on the life and ideas of Spinoza.

Limited numbered edition of 30, colour, 12”x18″ broadsheets on 100 lb silk card featuring soft-touch laminate and spot finish. No longer available. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30.

Conatus: Optics

Walter Hildebrandt

a good man
exists so fully
so intensely
he experiences eternity
in his lifetime

grinding lenses
helping others
to focus
see
clearly…
people need
a new vision
a better way
of Being
not with
theories
but fully living every day
free from
metaphysical
escape…
a need to decentre
to see beyond
to inspire
to awaken
to reveal
a clear vision…
a voyage of immanence
driven by the unconscious
conatus…
in portraiture
eyes
are the most important
they depict
an event in time
a remembrance
of a presence
visualized
and eternalized…
he [Rembrandt] saw in their eyes
an inner soul
he wanted
to capture that
advocated instead
for a story
of the human condition
the fight for freedom
every day…
to create
to paint
to think
is to choose life
the power to act

a new
model
the body
anew

this lens grinder
advocates
better optics

no mind/body
problem
all things
coexist

About the author, Walter Hildebrandt

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Illegal Combinations is a previous Hildebrandt/Lacey project.

Conatus: Optics frame 

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