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Tuesday: When considering the implications of value being placed upon arbitrary categorizing, it was most generally concluded that categorizing is normal, and safe until value is placed. We didn’t however consider positive value being placed as good thing, or what categorizing of ourselves could imply. I believe that categorizing in a positive way can definitely be a good thing. I also believe that categorizing of oneself can really influence a person’s perception of themselves. 

Thursday: I’d never before thought about how much the brain has to do with optical illusions. Now that I know what’s happening, I can’t quite understand how it wouldn’t be the brain. I’m intrigued with the incredibly complex functions of the brain that we take for granted. So why do we all take so much for granted? I believe that there may exist too many things happening at every moment, therefore making it impossible to comprehend all. So is our brain too complex for our brain to understand? What’s the point in that?

I also loved (yet was unsurprised by) Paul’s comments about art being an illusion. “There is no woman, no skull, only black and white on the screen.” How have we moved so far into our postmodern world that we no longer question the effects of images upon us? They are only colors on a T.V. screen. Why are they capable of so much?

Thinking about the art in this way is interesting and new. New and interesting.