"The ancient Greek word for the impassable or inaccessible is adyton. The adyton is the inner space of an ancient Greek temple containing the sanctum, which is completely closed off from the outside. This separation, the sharp caesura, distinguishes what is holy. This windowless enclosure, inaccessible depth, or inwardness is alien to Far Eastern thinking. A defining characteristic of the Buddhist temple is in fact its penetrability, being open on all sides. Some temples actually consist mostly entirely of doors and windows that shut nothing off... We might also say that the adyton contributes to the constitution of originality and authenticity."

"Shanzai: Deconstruction in Chinese" Byung-Chul Han

In the woods no more than an hour, I am struck anew by invisibility and its improvisational choreography as a necessary condition of life. I am reminded of the grace of reticence, the power of discretion, and the possibility of being utterly private and autonomous yet deeply aware of and receptive to the world. If I am enchanted by staying out of sight, it is because such behavior seems so rare in our own species. In recent years, we have been more preoccupied than ever by the question of how to stay in view.

| Akiko Busch, How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency