The Construction of Seeing
We rarely see people as they really are. Instead, we piece together our ideas of others from fragments like glances, words, gestures, or silences. We quickly turn these details into a full story, and often accept it as the truth without thinking.
A single glance can turn into a whole story. One phrase might become a character trait. We take a fragment and make it whole. It happens fast, almost automatically.
We create identities from whatever we notice—words, tone, timing, looks, or silence. Then we forget that what we made is still just our own version.
We create identities from whatever we notice—words, tone, timing, looks, or silence. Then we forget that what we made is still just our own version.
The three-panel wall art came from this idea: meaning is not simply given, but created.
Each panel is a fragment. It’s just a starting point that invites the mind to fill in the rest, and what we finish is never neutral.
The same line can mean different things to different people. Each person brings their own history, intentions, and emotions.
The same line can mean different things to different people. Each person brings their own history, intentions, and emotions.
Identity: The Failure of Reading.
Attempt I - Autocorrection. Message: “I am not linear.”
Attempt II - Directional Meaning. Message: “You don’t define me.”
Attempt III - Reflection. Message: “Don’t simplify me.”
Labeling yourself on your own rules
Usually, we meet our first impression of someone, not who they really are. How they look becomes our starting point, and from there, we build a whole story. A glance might become a story, a tone might seem like intention, and a small detail can feel like identity. We put this together so fast that it can seem just like the truth.
The first panel, “Attempt I: Autocorrection,” uses typoglycemia, the phenomenon where your brain can still read words even when the letters are scrambled. You don’t raed craefluly. You rcenostruct. You assmue. You croerct auotamticlaly.
And that’s the quiet bias I’m pointing at:
We don’t just see people as they are.
We “fix” them into something recognizable.
I decided to continue the idea of the triptych, but let it step outside the canvas and into another medium.
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[Part I — The Idea] · [Part II — The Making] · [Part III — The Meaning] · [Read the complete story]
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