He knows not where this path leads to nor does he see clearly path that lies ahead. Its getting dark dark and he must work his way atop the mountain before the dark consumes the dying light of the setting sun. The savage howling from the woods could send cold shivers down the spine of any ordinary man, unperturbed , taking steady steps he was no ordinary man. He had resolve of a warrior going for a battle expecting no return, with look on the face of a man who with nothing left to lose , had nothing to fear.
“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
Leonardo Da vinci, of course was speaking in terms of an opaque medium like oils with these tips on approaching the canvas. World as we know is a construct of our imagination that is brought forth by the light of life from the unfathomable darkness. Those exposed to the this light becomes your reality with brain filling up the rest of the missing pieces together, psychologically understood as cognitive bias which is exploited by illusionists and magicians of all sorts.
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