object-oriented ontology (OOO)

The human perception of a house or a tree or a rock is forever haunted by some hidden surplus in the things that never becomes present.

Even inanimate things only unlock each other's realities to a minimal extent, reducing one another to caricatures...even if rocks are not sentient creatures, they never encounter one another in their deepest being, but only as present-at-hand.

AI assisted + digital painting. 4000px x 4000px.