I discovered distinct philosophies, understandings, and attitudes, as well as subtle frailty and perceptible strength. While sitting on the moon-shaped stone and gazing into the horizon, I journeyed emotionally, intellectually, and visually into unknown waters yet encountered artists who had their own histories of voyaging. Voyaging, expeditions, traveling, journeying these are the acts through which we can confront the sublimity of nature and its superiority. As de Botton remarks, we have to accept boundaries on our desires and bow to natural forces greater than ourselves.

Sublime places and moments like the ocean, the setting sun, precipices, caverns, and mountains reveal that the universe is stronger than we are, that we are fragile and temporary. As Alain de Botton puts it: “the sublime as an encounter, pleasurable, intoxicating even, with human weakness in the face of the strength, age and size of the universe”. Once, I took a voyage across the ocean and was seized by the sublimity of its supremacy.

Look again.Įxtract from the one act play the Endgame by Samuel Beckett HAMM: And the horizon? Nothing on the horizon?ĬLOV: What in God’s name could there be on the horizon? – Why Austrians Now? – Austrian Expedition 2021.”

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