Why Tricky Transparent Eyeball?

 I have been searching for an online identity since I retired in 2017.  I never really connected with any until I thought one day about how much my personal philosophy rests firmly on Transcendentalism.  Also, I happen to be 6th cousins with none other than Emerson & Thoreau BOTH!  I guess Concord, Massachusetts was a very small town and it didn't take long for the genes to...um...get around.  😁

Anyway, the idea of a Transparent Eyeball came about through Emerson and I immediately thought how that term could also be applied to the lens of a photographer's camera.  So, for decades I've seen myself as a kind of "witness to the beauty of nature" through my photos.

The "Tricky" part comes from how much I've always revered tricksters from stories.  I also love the Jungian concept of The Trickster.  Folks unfamiliar with archetypes should definitely read this book by Lewis Hyde.  I am a trickster in many ways, so Foxian (my domain name) fits in that way too.

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