Marlon Lewis

Orangery, 2024, Installation views

Orangery

by Marlon Lewis

In partial fulfilment of a Master of Art in Fine Arts

11 September

“A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thought. So, he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusions. By thoughts, I mean specifically, chatter in the skull. Perpetual and compulsive repetition of words, of reckoning and calculating. I’m not saying that thinking is bad. Like everything else, it’s useful in moderation. A good servant but a bad master. And all so-called civilized peoples have increasingly become crazy and self-destructive because, through excessive thinking, they have lost touch with reality. That’s to say, we confuse signs, words, numbers, symbols, and ideas with the real world…” -Alan Watts

Photography by Reshma Chhiba