Category: vision

What the eye doesn’t see

This piece by Ryodi Ikeda : point of no return, a pulsating stroboscopic sound and light installation, appears to be monochrome. However images captured digitally reveal a more nuanced colour spectrum.

It is suggested that the human eye is capable of perceiving between 2 and 3 million colours, whereas birds, butterflies, fish and bees can see many more. Jennings explains that this is related to a difference in number of photoreceptors or cones. Humans with three cones are trichchromats whereas the birds and bees have four and are tetrachromats. Research on gender differences colour perception suggests that some women may also be tetrachromats. When contemplating the significant variety in our environments its intriguing to imagine what else might exist beyond our perception.

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environments that challenge

Post author By marneywalker
Post date June 8, 2020
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Arakawa and Gins challenge the value environments that are easily accessible by asserting that health and wellbeing is maintained by living in more challenging environments. They collaborated to create a variety of environments that use features including vibrant colour, obstacles and uneven floors to create barriers in the environment as a deliberate means to challenge the user. Their thesis : Reversible Destinies, asks Could Architecture Help You Live Forever? proposes that by stimulating our senses to a conscious experience, architecture can be a means to extend life indefinitely.

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recognising objects

I can see it but cant see where it is Created out of Mind

Theres a real one and theres an image Created Out of Mind

Sometimes people living with dementia have difficulty recognising every day objects. This is not related to sight loss. They may have no issues with visual acuity when their sight is tested. In The Mind’s Eye , Oliver Sacks desccribes the impact of this form of agnosia, associated with post cortical atrophy that affects some people with dementia. These images are from a film Do I see what you see co created from accounts of people living with dementia by Created out of mind

give us some idea of living with this condition what this might be like

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experiencing pattern

Can the power of images such as these that draw the viewer, and challenge our perception give us some insight into altered perceptions in dementia, and offer perhaps a captivating rather than a disturbing experience ? It is often said that some people living with dementia experience pattern as 3-dimensional or moving, and therefore potentially disturbing. In Realistic Magic: Objects, Ontology and Causality, Andrew Morton describes the:” aesthetic dimension as a the causal dimension.. you are working directly with people’s optic nerve and field of vision..” He describes his experience of viewing the paintings of aboriginal painter Yukultji Nanpangati :” The gaze emanates from the force field of a Napangati painting. It gathers me into it’s disturbing, phantasmal unfolding of zigzagging lines and oscillating patches.”.. ” At a distance it looks like a woven mat of reeds or slender stalks, yellowed, sun baked, resting on top of some darker, warmer depth. A generous, relaxed, precise, careful yet giving, caring lineation made of some blobby dots. The warmth reminds me of Klee. The lines remind you of Bridget Riley. As you come close and begin to face the image it begins to play, to scintillate, to disturb the field of vision. It oscillates and ripples,..”

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home and away

I have moved from my home 200 miles a way. I chose the colour scheme when I refurbished the kitchen (left). I am now housesitting, living amongst the owners posessions, a tasteful neutral pallete. An old friend visiting, was prompted to buy me this mug that somehow encapsulates my personal preferences into one everyday object.