in a fight between an image and a word, who would win?

if you try to look right at a word it turns invisible. on the other hand, if you look at an image in a certain way it becomes ultravisible. visibility is the condition of meaning for an image. it references only itself because it isn't a symbol. in fact, it's the opposite of a symbol, which might be a letter or a word. because of that fact images can go into you very deeply, or they can be totally missed by you while you are looking for a word that will explain what the feeling you are supposed to have is, when you look at the image. when you look at an image, all there is is feeling.

this isn't a good way of explaining what an image is (although it does explain partly why I like images) - after all, what is an image? is the question. an image is something you see that exists as itself without a reference to anything else that exists. it is made of specificity. when we try to make images, we are often trying to make something that is all specifics, because that is how we see. maybe images are just how we see. it's hard to talk or write about what an image is, because as soon as you start talking about it stops being an image. maybe one way to explain what an image is is to not talk about it.