conceptual

A teaching opportunity at Fresno State University in the late ’60s brought him west, where he sought refuge from the unnervingly high racial tensions on the Mississippi campus and leaned more heavily into conceptual art.

The conceptual idea around this is that it’s growing out of something, as opposed to tabula rasa, a new building.

Playing out that action within three physical walls and an invisible fourth allows us to wrap our heads and arms around heightened topics that, for many, may be conceptual.

Also the film medium itself is the most powerful if we don’t consider music, which quite often is not as directly linguistic or conceptual.

I was interested in digging away at what Mary Midgley calls the philosophical plumbing, the conceptual pipes that are underneath our civilization's feet.