" The axial is not a thing: not a philosophy; not a religion; not an aesthetic; in short, not itself any of the many ways that can be used to understand it. It's more like a space, a worked space - an intentional state of awareness in which something unpredicted can occur: a unique event resulting in what seemingly embodies its origin and yet itself is original.
For Quasha, whose axial art makes it clear that an immersion in the flux of experience is not a submission to happenstance, an axis is like an intention-possibility*: a force that, as it generates possibilities, gives them a provisional but intelligible order.
Every aesthetic advances a hope, for truth or clarity or beauty or whatever. Quasha’s aesthetic is driven by the hope that possibility will always be open and fresh, never predictable. Thus will our possibilities remain human, thoroughly ours and in no need of transcendental alibis."
Carter Ratcliff, Foreword to George Quasha's Axial Stones: An Art of Precarious Balance (North Atlantic Books, 2006)
*intention-possibility (added by Catarina)
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thank you Eva Karczag
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