Perspectives and Tenerife biro drawings
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
- Carl Jung
This quote is really as simple and pointless or as deep and meaningful as you want to make it, but as far as perspective goes it is relevant to pretty much everything you see and experience.
Here are two biro drawings I drew on holiday (scanned and then coloured in using the Microsoft Sketchbook app) and the photos of the places taken on my phone that got me thinking about this more.
Alone, each of the drawings give a one-point perception. They comprise of small sections of the view from where I was sitting at the time drawn onto a tiny piece of paper, blending what my eyes saw in the surroundings as well as part of my imagination- with each visual object squished to smaller dimensions and proportions. The second-point perception is the photographs provided below that were taken by a phone camera, the more "reliable" one perhaps. However, even in the space of a few days between drawing these in Tenerife and arriving home, matching them up with the photos wasn’t as straight forward..The third difference comes from how I remembered the places of these photos looking like in my mind, and this is only three of many more that exist.
One mind and pair of eyes alone are unable to see or remember the exact same view as they saw in one second, due to changing light or a different angle or to due to adding or removing things with your imagination.
This is something I see people write about all the time and I think that even though it's quite an obvious statement, it's interesting how unreliable and selective our mind and eyes can be. When you show something to someone and expect a reaction as great as you initially gave when you first saw it, the question lies whether it is just a difference of opinion that creates a dimmed reaction? Or if the above reasons as well as personal experiences combined with our own bubble of existence means what we’re actually seeing might be so different to one another than originally thought.
Alone, each of the drawings give a one-point perception. They comprise of small sections of the view from where I was sitting at the time drawn onto a tiny piece of paper, blending what my eyes saw in the surroundings as well as part of my imagination- with each visual object squished to smaller dimensions and proportions. The second-point perception is the photographs provided below that were taken by a phone camera, the more "reliable" one perhaps. However, even in the space of a few days between drawing these in Tenerife and arriving home, matching them up with the photos wasn’t as straight forward..The third difference comes from how I remembered the places of these photos looking like in my mind, and this is only three of many more that exist.
One mind and pair of eyes alone are unable to see or remember the exact same view as they saw in one second, due to changing light or a different angle or to due to adding or removing things with your imagination.
This is something I see people write about all the time and I think that even though it's quite an obvious statement, it's interesting how unreliable and selective our mind and eyes can be. When you show something to someone and expect a reaction as great as you initially gave when you first saw it, the question lies whether it is just a difference of opinion that creates a dimmed reaction? Or if the above reasons as well as personal experiences combined with our own bubble of existence means what we’re actually seeing might be so different to one another than originally thought.
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