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Most of what you see and think is a lie. When I first read the title of one of John Stepper's blog posts (John is of Working Out Loud book fame, I wasn't sure what I would find. The title, The man singing falsetto in the ladies' room, definitely attracted me to reading his blog post. And when I read it, what I read was not what I expected, which is exactly what John was trying to do with the title of his blog. If you have not read the article, go read it, it is totally worth the 5 minutes it will take you to read it.
In John's blog post, he highlights that most people will make assumptions about the intentions of an action by another person. We take lots of little pieces of information in based on our observations and then fill in the rest with our imagination. Basically, what we do is fill in all the missing pieces. And by filling in the pieces, we often get it wrong.
While it is not possible in all situations, if you catch yourself making assumptions about someone else or guessing what someone is thinking based on their actions, take a step back and try to assess the full story, ask questions and be thoughtful before making a mistake based on false assumptions.
Go read the article, it is worth it and the punchline is awesome.
Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes. ~Robert Brault
Garage door down the alley from me. A very aged house and doorway which provides a perceptual treat.
The morning glass of water for the Old Monk at sunrise and is not Old monk (Rum) on water at sunset ;-)
My work is an investigation into the limits of visual perception as a measure of external reality, and explores notions of time, duration, history, memory and surface.
Video, photographic and sculptural works blur the boundaries between still and moving imagery. Temporality and the space between the visual and mental encounter is investigated by focusing the viewers gaze on very specific pieces of visual information.
MMVI symbolically deconstructs the authority of television as a medium, by literally deconstructing the sanctity of the TV set itself as an object.
MMVI exists as a sequential series of 35 photographs which document the switching off sequence of a now obsolete technology - a cathode ray tubed television set.
Static was deliberately chosen so as not to influence the viewer, and to reference the fact that TV static was a visual manifestation of background radiation which was created after the 'Big Bang' which scientists believe created the universe.
MMVI documents a monitor that is in the process of constantly switching itself off.
A sequence that only lasts for a fraction of a second and was so ubiquitous it was probably never noticed by millions of viewers.
I find beauty and poignancy in sequences such as these.
MMVI also exists as a single or four channel video deconstruction which progressively slows this switching off sequence, stretching the length of the off sequence from its fraction of a second duration second toward a virtual stasis.
MMVI explores collective/mass experience and individual isolation.
MMVI explores the viewers relationship with an everyday object.
MMVI explores the viewers relationship to/with the screen and its imagery and sound.