About Seeing...
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When we look at an object we identify it by means of association. That is to say we rapidly flip through files of “looks like?” until we hit upon the accurate correspondence (usually a word or a name).
Not unlike the process by which we put our very first schema together - that of the human face - every object we subsequently identify we do so by referring to and compiling files for association. In the case of a human face this means that once we have the schema, we can recognize other faces as faces because of the process of associative memory. That is why abstract or non-objective art is so interesting to me, because the successful abstract object does not allow the process of associative memory to close the loop - in that the object refuses to conform to anything previously known. It is this disabling of memory by the abstract object that enables imagination to move into action organically and begin to figure within the object something that belongs to the viewer (the way one might figure an image in a cloud). The lesson to be drawn from this is that we see what we see for a reason, and the more liberated we are from the limitations of associative memory, the more imaginative and vital our perception and experience can be - not just in the museum or the studio, but in the world at large. |
David Klugman
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