I explore analogies between my reflections on humanist subjects and phenomena in the physical sciences. For example, I share my reflections on the benefits and the drawbacks of Contention. For this purpose, I set myself searching for phenomena in the physical sciences that will allow me to introduce my ideas. Once I have chosen a subject, I use engineering and photographic techniques to craft my work with no recourse to image manipulation.

Often, the work I create serves as a tool with which to reflect. Might not transdisciplinary thinking be a method to explore hidden truths? After all, we all experience longer periods of reflection. After a few days the solution sometimes arrives spontaneously at an unexpected moment, often upon waking or falling asleep. A first hypothesis is that reflection continues unconsciously maybe over a number of days. In this case, we let time do its work. A second hypothesis is that reflection was probably concluded, but an unconscious barrier prevents us from formulating the solution. We need a few days where our mind is no longer focused on the problem for the solution to emerge.

Myself, I use a transdisciplinary approach as a means to circumvent the block posited by the second hypothesis. In effect, the solution may violate some of our conscious certainties. This might led one to stumble into certain difficulties as our conscience self sometimes rules out the solution, no matter how simple it may be.

Hence I explore phenomena in the physics that present analogies with areas of humanist research that interest me. Using these parallels, I work to develop extended metaphors. The questions that result do not all have the same relevance. Nonetheless, this enables me to arrive at new conclusions which would not have been possible by remaining in the initial area of study. Hence I hope to discover new forms of truth that would not have been open to me otherwise.