Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Eye of the Beholder

There is not one moment in our lifetime we come upon a picture of a photo that has some significance to us. These are what we call, rhetorical gazes. Rhetorical gazes help us explain why and what we view in a situation. One such example is familiar and intimate. These include our nationality, cultures, religious beliefs all have an impact on how we store these memory fragments in our short-term, mid-term and long-term memory.


We uses these images to get our thoughts and point across in a form of propaganda, as we try to get the view to relate to what is being shown and act upon what we wish for them to do. Images tend to remain in the memory longer due to the visual and how we can remember them.



The image below is something not many will recognize as a whole unless they look further and noticed three key figures. The figure eight is often used to represent infinity and circles are cycles that also never end. Another matter is that they are all connected.


1 comment:

  1. The very first sentence in this says that we never see a photo that has significance to us. What you should have said is there is never a moment in our life when we DON'T see a picture in our life that has significance. After your description of Rhetorical Gazes was very good. I really understood it. It is cool to see a picture, you're giving a good example.

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