Request for thought experiments illustrating the limits of the visual imagination

Ecker and Palmer.

Letter from Dave Ecker

There are a few arrivals and departures in one’s life that take on significance far beyond the actual events. One such event was suffused with high expectations: my arrival at New York University in 1968 as a new addition to the Art Department faculty. Almost thirty years later I received a letter from L. Jay Oliva, then NYU’s president informing me that I had been designated “Professor Emeritus of Art and Art Education effective September 1, 1997, upon your retirement.” Evidently I had fulfilled at least some of the University’s institutional expectations . . . but not my own. My life long interests have continued to expand to the point where my friends tell me I have too many projects.