From: Natasha Vita-More (natasha@natasha.cc)
Date: Sun Sep 24 2000 - 14:45:30 MDT
I'm working on a piece and I'd like to run it by you all and see if anyone
has any suggestions or contributions that might be relevant.
What I'm looking for is an analogy for how we interpret information in ways
that are diverse and/or contradictory. The analogy would reflect how
concepts can be understood from, say, two diverse perspectives.
A visual example might be looking at a hologram and it would provide
different images depending the eye level or viewpoint when looking at it.
If one only saw the hologram from one viewpoint, he or she would miss the
full meaning or interpretation of the picture.
Another example would be ambiguous figures: A line drawing could be both
at the same time a vase and the profile of two faces, or an image that
represents an entirely different concept when turned upside down.
We can also experience a similar blurred, 2-sided or contradictory thinking
when we are influenced by others and become perceptually mislead by the
"faces in the fire." Perceiving and thinking are not independent and
indicate connections that seem very real.
As a sidebar, the mythological God of Beginnings, Janus, was often depicted
by two faces gazing in opposite directions and later referenced in slogans
about not repeating mistakes (foreseeing the future and remembering the
past.) Not a line-drawn visual blurring, but a information-rich
directional blur. Some bystanders might say to the "East", and others to
the "West" while both investing their piddlings on what interpretation they
intuited to be correct.
Thanks,
Natasha
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