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Vision Card [Reverse]
©2008 PJM

[A synopsis of the project “Vision+Beauty” on AFH Tumblr, using a simple blog format to pursue a web-based scan of the domain, to produce a unique document/not-document, mapping historic definitions of vision and beauty with current ones, to complement and “bring to a momentary point” multiple - systematic or ongoing - comprehensive dimensional analyses for comprehending the dimensional relations between vision and beauty, specifically as they pertain to the artist, generally as they pertain to humanity, presented throughout the AFH network of sites]

NOTATIONS

Vision is an optical outer to inner sense operation.

Vision is an instinctual response.

Vision is a function of choice.

Beauty is an optical inner to outer thought operation.*

Beauty is a function of instinctual response.

Beauty is the freedom of choice.

*The optical and brain complexes are indivisible.

VISION CHANNEL DEVICE “Inside>Outside”
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Parthenon Museum installation
Vinyl on acrylic, 4’ x 4’
Metal spacers and mounts by Don Adams ©2000 PJM

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Distinguishing between epistemological mandates for beauty and instinctual responses to beauty is a prime artist function.

ANTITHESIS

Artificial beauty is not beauty.

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Artificial vision skews input, and therefore response.

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DIMENSIONAL BEAUTY

Factors include movement, light levels and sources, reflection, patterns and sequences, composition, static elements, setting, memory and memory activators, comparative elements, cultural relevance and more.

CONSIDERATIONS AND TERMS

Symmetry
Survival
Realism
Interactivity
Consequence
Responsibility

REPRESENTATION is the key element

VISION as a tribal expression of relational values

The MECHANICS OF VISION; VISION TECHNOLOGY; ARTIFICIALLY ENHANCED VISION; DIMENSIONAL VISION.

NATURAL BEAUTY

INFINITE BEAUTY

FALL Animation Still
©2002 PJM