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Untitled
Pencil and gouache on paper
16cm x 27cm
© 2009 Tammy Lu

“Whenever we use certain things for attending from them to other things, in the way in which we always use our own body, these things change their appearance. They appear to us now in terms of entities to which we are attending from them, just as we feel our own body in terms of the things outside to which we are attending from our body. In this sense we can say that when we make a thing function as the proximal term of tacit knowing, we incorporate it in our body – or extend our body to include it – so that we come to dwell in it.”

Michael Polanyi, The Tacit Dimension (1966)