There is nothing to see:
I didn’t know
the phone was taking pictures, but when I went back to the camera roll, there
were all these random shots. I looked at them. And then I decided to collage
them into a slide. There is nothing to see—they make no particular sense. But
in looking at these random fragments that bear no intentions of being anything
in particular, my interest began to linger with the lines and textures and
colors. I began to see something(s).
Seeing is the state of apprehension of meaning. Looking is
the process of generating meaning. We ourselves are separate from the object of
our vision when we look (“for”, “at”, “in”, “around”, “beside”, “to”,
“between”, “on” or even “upon”). But when we see, visual input unites with the
associations formed from looking to imbue our vision with meaning. In this way,
looking is a journey and seeing is an arrival. There is nothing to see, so you
look. And after you have looked, you may in fact see “nothing,” but that would
then be a meaning and not a statement about the visual field. Looking is a
desire for meaning. Seeing is meaning made.
Looking is desire.
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