About seeing, illusions, and reality
See enlargement of A State of Sky – Digital Painting 2006
This is one of the last paintings I created; it is about color and space, but it was prompted by this most unusual sky. The clouds were perfectly placed within the silouhette of the mountains.
But what I painted is more what I saw – it was as though the clouds had a blue outline around them. Because I had never seen this quite this way, I decided to paint the illusion rather than the reality.
Of course, as a student of perception for years, I tend to think the illusion is the reality. And it is our sense of how the world is put together which actually confuses our ability to see.
Even those of us who know better don’t really see with just our eyes; our minds and understanding are what partition the world.
See Also
- Very Cool Illusion
Link found in text – excellent example of reality vs illusion - Knowing People: Understanding Perceptions
There text explaining how we perceive reinforces my point - Onion theory of reality – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not completely related, but came up in my search – interesting and pertinent enough
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