dillard & leopold

assumptions. Light bouncing of an object (a chair for example) is only that and nothing else. As

far as optics are concerned we do not “see” the chair, we merely see what is left of any light

hitting the chair. But those flashes of light are almost useless without interpretation and

assumptions. Our minds use shading, texture and prior experience to determine aspects such as

distance and definition, and recognition; i.e. The object is approximately four feet away, it looks

to be around three feet tall, and since I have seen chairs before I recognize it as that. Some ware

in the evolution of this system of referencing something deeper was created. We can look at an

object and not only see, but feel. We can connect sight with emotion and associate those emotions

with those from past experience and even assign a judgment. The sunset is beautiful, much like a

sunrise; and it also can represent closure. The object is a chair, much like previously seen chairs;

The “eye”( that is as it is used as a figure of speech) can be trained and untrained to spot

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