I cannot name this diptych. So I just named it "Diptych." The object in the top image is a radio controlled aircraft. (The objects in the bottom image are palm trees; I didn't want the palm trees to feel left out of the "explanation.") I thought of naming the diptych RADIO CONTROLLED AIRCRAFT & PALM TREES, but I don't want anyone to feel like they've just run a marathon simply by reading the title.
What is in a name?
It seems all too obvious, but "chair" is not actually a chair. The word is not the thing. It's a word - a convenient way, true, that we've all agreed on to describe the thing - but it's not the thing itself. All too often, it seems to me, we put too much importance into names. I'm reminded of a passage by Jiddu Krishnamurti, excerpted below.
The skill of intelligence is to put knowledge in its right place. Without knowledge it's not possible to live in this technological and almost mechanical civilization but it will not transform the human being and his society. Knowledge is not the excellence of intelligence; intelligence can and does use knowledge and thus transforms man and his society. Intelligence is not the mere cultivation of the intellect and its integrity. It comes out of the understanding of the whole consciousness of man, yourself and not a part, a separate segment, of yourself. The study and the understanding of the movement of your own mind and heart give birth to this intelligence. You are the content of your consciousness; in knowing yourself you will know the universe. This knowing is beyond the word for the word is not the thing. The freedom from the known, every minute, is the essence of intelligence. It's this intelligence that is in operation in the universe if you leave it alone. You are destroying this sacredness of order through the ignorance of yourself. This ignorance is not banished by the studies others have made about you or themselves. You yourself have to study the content of your own consciousness. The studies the others have made of themselves, and so of you, are the descriptions but not the described. The word is not the thing.
