Caryatid
photo collage
I fear someone
– whoever is making education system and social network decisions for us - is secretly but systematically
stealing the third dimension from our lives. We
are gradually, ever so imperceptibly, being deprived of sight, the perceptive
kind, the kind that comes of having a simultaneously tactile and visual
understanding of the world, the understanding of colour, form, depth, texture,
structure and the relationship between our eyes, hands, body and the physical
world.
The
result is that people are losing multi-point perspective on the world; they are
becoming flat-screened. As they become more virtual, they are being directed to
think about life in the false three dimensions: me, myself and more.
Why?
Creative, imaginative, visually analytical people who think dimensionally and
can perceive multiple perspectives at once; they live proactively. They are expensive
and complicated to keep satisfied. Art education and exposure encourage people
who no longer think this way naturally to begin doing so again, to begin
thinking symbolically, analogically, metaphorically, critically and to begin having ideas
that may complicate manufacturing, politics, religion, economics…
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