Sunday, August 24, 2008

Ways of Seeing

The way we see is affected by what we know and believe. We look to one thing and in that act it is reflected our inner thoughts.


We say in Spanish “una imagen vale más que mil palabras”. It is the same case in this text, where an image can represent something that someone wants us to see.


The way we see something has a relation with their position in space and time. These days images or pictures represent more than what they mean: in the past people didn't have the chance to see what now they are allow to see. Camera has made these changes possible. Images are not longer unique and exclusive, there have been used for different purposes and they have changed the meaning of what they used to represent.


These new representations are going to affect the way all of us create our identity in relation to the past, present and future. Some people believe their future is better than their past; I have to say that the only way to understand our future is seeing and learning from our past, the context and interpretations that we have done through our lives.