Can you sketch yourself as a fruit? If not, there are chances your brain is getting its way. People don’t see like a camera. How do we see ourselves then? How do we see ourselves in the art? To stop identifying objects and see scenes as collections of lines, shadows and shapes are I guess one way to see ourselves. And then the sketches look more realistic and three-dimensional. Is that so?
There is a condition, called strabismus, which affects 10 percent of the population, and it is called stereoblindness — with this, we can not use both eyes to construct an integrated view of the world. Most ordinary people are stereoblind and in this case, we can’t see “magic eye” images. This is a condition to see a chaotic background that turns into a single three-dimensional image. A limited depth perception must rely on other clues, such as shadows and occlusion, to navigate any further.
Great artists have great power and influence to interpret and represent what they see in the world. Not only that but also the world they want to be seen in. A collective representation influences perception. The artists’ special way of seeing translates into eye scan patterns. Different studies were conducted on this subject. The studies cover the findings that artists’ eyes tended to scan the whole picture, while the nonartists focus is on objects.
Well, let’s represent ourselves to the world of different influences acceptance & opportunity and trigger bias, sometimes violence and persecution.
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