IMAGININGS

LIFE

DEATH AND

BEAUTY

Richard McCutchan Phd

Imaginings is a collection of sculptures, paintings, poems, prose, small buildings, furniture, toys, and more that I have enjoyed creating throughout the last half-century. These creations, which I call “imaginings,” originate from my response to the sensate world of touch, smell, sight, sound, and taste. When I allow that sensate world to become alive, my imagination soars. The Greeks called this aesthesis, meaning the taking in or percieving through the senses. For the the Greeks the heart was the organ sensation and the place of imagination.

NATURE

“To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”
— Blake

MYTHOLOGY

Awakening the Spirit of Osiris
Art has remained key to our survival from the dawn of human culture.
— Herbert Read

DEATH

“Death is the mother of beauty.” —Wallace Stevens

FAMILY& PLACE

Thought of the

HEART

Love runs to meet us even before we start looking.
— Marsilio Facino