Naming is Seeing | Seeing is Forgetting
This is a video about how naming and categorizing both sharpens and limits our perceptions of the world, whether we’re seeing as artists or scientists.
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Naming is Seeing | Seeing is Forgetting
Posted 26 March 2011 by Ellen McMahonTagged As: | Categories: Art Lab | 1 Comment
Naming is seeing the thing one sees for the first time.
Posted 20 December 2010 by Ellen McMahonTagged As: | Categories: Art Lab | No Comments
Now, forty years later as part of Art Lab at El Coronado Ranch I walked through a field of tall dry grasses as Valer Austin, said, “Take a picture. It’s all about the grasses.”












