Weekly #7 -- Sunday, December 23, 2018

I believe this is basically correct but am writing it out to test my own understanding.

If you get pricked with a needle or pin, your senses first detect the pressure of the needle against your skin. This is sensation. Next you recognize that the pressure is actually something sticking into your skin and possibly that it hurts. This is perception. Last comes the decision of “I don’t like that, stop!”. This is judgement and is subjective in that what one person judges to be good might not be so good for another.

Each of these transitions, sensation to perception and perception to judgement, probably occurs many times, over and over for any given input, and each cycle adds a new layer onto our experience. Since we each experience things differently, I wonder if this contributes to why one image might immediately resonate with one person but not with another. Or why we subconsciously grab onto one sight, smell, or even thought but not another. Those images that really resonate with you… what do they say?

Anyway, happy holidays. Enjoy.

When it comes to visual images, Alfred Stieglitz’s (and Minor White’s) term “equivalents” also comes to mind.