As some of you know, I have an interest in a constellation of ideas around the questions of looking, seeing, perception, and the nature of visual patterns generally in terms of how we make sense of the world.
I was reading here and there and came across a passage that really struck me on these very questions. The book, called The Mountains, was written by some fellow named Stewart Edward White in 1906.
It motivated me to do a piece I am tentatively calling "You Too Will See, Dear."
It is a web piece (found here) but could exist in other formats as well? Either way, it would need to include Stewart;s text, and then the images (below) which I am collecting from the internet. The web formatted piece includes the photo titles and source URLs:
"His attention stops on the
unusual, just as does your; only in his case the unusual is not the
obvious. He has succeeded by long training in eliminating that.
Therefore he sees deer where you do not. As soon as you can forget the
naturally obvious and construct and artificial obvious, then you too
will see deer."
- Stewart Edward White, The Mountains,, 1906.
