Issue 10 Systems Of Movement Cover

The word Dogma was adopted from Latin, literally meaning ‘philosophical tenet or principle’. Before that, the word was Greek: doxa,‘to appear, to seem, to think, to accept’. In Plato’s Republic it was contrasted with episteme, the Greek route of epistemology, the study of knowledge. Belief, then, was opposed to knowledge. Opinion vs. truth. What appears to be versus what actually is.

In a more modern sense, the word dogma has become a pejorative. Beliefs are labelled dogmas if they’re rigid, if they defy reason or resist criticism. A belief becomes a dogma if it’s accepted without argument. They are illogical.

At Orienteer we like the juxtaposition of appearance and truth. We like the irony. We know — and have always tried to show through imagery — a great secret: that there’s movement in stillness and stillness in movement. We deal with motion in a medium that is inherently static. But it translates. It is almost like a Buddhist koan. The sound of a one-handed clap, a great effort ensnared in a flash. Koans are not riddles. They’re about understanding opposites.

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