The first issue was how to define awe. What is it? The thesis they alighted on rested on two key appraisals: “perceived vastness” and “a need for accommodation,” qualifying the latter as “a challenge to or negation of mental structures when they fail to make sense of an experience of something vast.”

People don’t just want the spark of a World, they expect to discover a World fully formed, inhabit its complexities, believe in its potentiality, and continue to generate meaning from it.

Where the Director pursues an idealistic vision of humans uncovering meaning from an exploration of their problems, the Cartoonist says meaning is easy: we’re already at home in the world of our own emotions. Seeking Home and Steering By Gut, the Cartoonist makes Flag Art that encourages us to feel more of what we feel, filter that which affirms th