The Way We See Things

How We View Things. The way we view and observe things cannot really be interpreted the same way to everyone. As individuals the way we view things is extremely based on our own perceptions and our own preferences. People are drawn to things due to a lot of different reasons: color, scent, sound, etc. I feel that a lot of the signals that we are given in life are received solely because something about them causes us to be drawn to it. We like something because of its color, we want coffee because the smell of it brewing draws us to it, or we hear a sound and follow it because of our intrigue. We live in a society that is full of sensory overload and what we see and how we see it seems to be based on the intrigue that it inflicts on our own personality and preference. Through my own observations I have realized that a lot of the things I am drawn to in life are based on the colors that I see. Color theorists tell us that we all make color decisions everyday in our life. Our world today is marked by bold uses of color in ever area of modern society. As a society we make a lot of decisions based on the color or spectrum of things. We want things that represent ourselves and we want to see things as we feel they should be represented. This is true for most aspects of life, but we also want life to reflect the way that we want to see it, which isn’t always the same reality as other people. As Americans, we see things as we choose to see them. There really is no wrong or right answer to the question of signal processing, we are drawn to objects and ideas in the world because they intrigue us and we want to learn more about them. We make decisions in life that effect the signals that we give to others which can also change the way that others process the signals that we inflict on to them. As a modern society, the topic of signal processing is the way that we process the visual and audio information that the world gives us, and the way that it affects us in our own lives. Through my own observations over the past weeks, I have come to a few perspectives on Seeing things differently. I read an artist interview where the artist spoke of a process He called, “breaking your eyes open.” He stated that in order to be a good artist you have to see things in a different light that you normally do. Try to experience life through the eyes of another or try to see things the way that other people view you. It is important to try to see things from different perspectives and visualizations in order to bring more ‘creativity into your life and your work. We all process what we see differently, and I feel that it is important as a graphic artist to have my own work reflect the way that I see thing and share that information with others. Sometimes we see things in life that really change our own perspective on how we perceive things, or should perceive things. The artist, Jean Michel Basquiat talked about how his mother took him to an art gallery when he was a child and he saw Picasso’s “Guernica.” This painting not only changed the way the he saw things, but you can see the influence of that painting and style of painting in a lot of his own work. His paintings were very large in size, similar to the sides of buildings that he used leave his graffiti tags on before he became a famous painting. The signals from the world around him influenced him in such a way that his work became a commentary on the big city urban landscape. In conclusion, I feel that the subject of signal processing is a very important to the visual artist. It is important to understand what aspects of society speak to people visually, and what intrigues others. We all process information in our own way and we base what aspects of life influence our work in different ways. It is not only important to express our own views of life, but to understand the way other people see life as well.