Plato’s cave allegory

Bridget Riley’s piece of art Escaping Centre depicts 15 circles with a moving red dot. The dot is initially in the centre and then it slowly takes different positions in the circle, and gradually, moves onto its periphery until it finally steps out of the circle. In 2013 while working for an outreach programme, mentioned in the previous post, one of the unemployed participants talked to me about how the circle around you can make you feel really small almost invisible, like a pin stuck in the centre, and a little prior to or after that, an old student of mine had met me in the local library and had narrated a similar metaphor. Read more