What do you see?

We all look at the world differently. We see with our personal experience and knowledge and what we perceive something to be is a fusion between what we see and what we know. Flexible though our eyes may be, they can only digest one visible field at one given time. They scan over a wide… Continue reading What do you see?

Objects of imagining

Looking at surfaces, marks on walls, water, the sky and searching for images within them is nothing new. I recall looking for recognisable shapes in wallpaper or the clouds from a very young age. Richard Wollheim (1980, p. 205) in his essays on Art and its objects, refers to ‘representational seeing,’ and talks about seeing… Continue reading Objects of imagining