I'd like to meet:
Here you see some of my favourite works and models.
The Photographers and Art Directors are masters ...
I often ask myself, how do our eyes work? How do lawyer's
eyes, the eyes of a doctor, or a photographer work? The lawyer
sees the gap in contracts, or the one small detail that changes
the whole situation. Because the lawyer saw and found this one
important part of a text, story, contract or whatever, he can
change the whole situation to the good or to the bad for one of
the concerning people.
The doctor looks at the human body and sees details that tell him,
what is good and what harms the body. By that he can make arrangements
to strengthen the "good parts", and weaken the harmful and incorrect
parts. In the end: cure people.
The photographer sees a landscape, human body, a face, a text,
a shape, a shapeless thing, or whatever. In the simple essence
of a thing he sees the special detail, the part that tells a
story, evokes a thought, or makes people go through certain
emotions. He makes it visible to others and in the end: let
people follow his eyes.
So I am asking myself again, how do our eyes work? We see, what
we have learned to see. We learned, what we have to see. To help
others learn to see what we saw. We see what helps our purpose,
profession, and oversee what could be interesting, but does not
fit into our purpose. In our early years this already starts.
The first thing we see as a child are strange shapes, blurry
images that move. So the first thing we notice is that there is
colour, and that there are movements around us. Later on we
recognise faces, more complex forms and more detailed movements.
After that our own movements become more complex, and our eyes
become like a rapidly moving, all-consuming impression-machine.
A child does not filter into: I like apple-trees, or I do not.
A child sees a fascinating shape, strong, huge, with a rough
texture, and funny coloured balls hanging on something that looks
like fingers, only longer and thinner. And more than we have on
our own hand. A child smells and tastes, but does not yet evaluate.
Wouldn't it be interesting for us to step back and try to sometimes
more use our eyes and mind like a child? In the bible, there is
a phrase, in which Jesus says that children are our role models
in many ways.
Eyes just absorb light, split into light and shadow, and perceive
the colour information. And still, we have to learn how to use
them correctly.
So, if we accept, that we don't see everything, and that this does not
mean something does not exist, we are open. And when we are open,
we can see more. And when we see more, we can be fascinated.
Like children.
