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I can't believe what's happening visually, in front of my eyes.
The eye sees everything upside down," the artist explained, "and then the brain automatically reverses it. I'm just trying to put it back the way the mind sees it." Alvis
You want to achieve the effect, but not necessarily perform the same thing.
Transform the Material.(Chuang Tzu)
Literally as well as metaphorically, the man accustomed to inverting lenses has undergone a revolutionary transformation of vision.
Simplicate, and add lightness!
The eye altering, alters all.
Now there has been a rearrangement of the kaleidoscope.
Seeing alters the thing that is seen and transforms the seer
Life is squinchy.
Once upon a time, there lived a troll that was so naughty and so evil that he decided to make a mirror that would twist the image of anything and anyone reflected in it.
Like the kaleidoscope in the nursery that had so delighted her when she first came to Blackhurst, one twist and the same pieces were rearranged to create a vastly different picture.
And I twisted it wrong just to make it right
Had to leave myself behind
It's important to me to have what I photograph undergo a certain transformation - to become a thing different from what we are used to, to be another version of itself.
Simplify and add lightness
Sometimes, when you look close enough at a person hoping to find clarity, the image of the person becomes so hazy, so distorted, that all you're left with is unclear thoughts and more questions.
We must categorize and simplify in order to comprehend. But the reduction of complexity entails a great danger, since the line between enlightening epitome and vulgarized distortion is so fine.
A mirror mirroring a mirror
The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an intereffect between the lines in a painting: one line attracts the other and at the point of maximum attraction the lines curve in toward the attracting point and form is altered.
My perspective will create my perception
In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.
As deformed as a grotesque potato,
If you give people more perspective of one object, they start to see it more clearly.
The sun's in my eyes and it's difficult to see. The shape of her is distorted by the light, circles of her silhouette removed as if by a pastry cutter.
I've been missing something recently. Turns out it was perspective.
Pull in Positivity and Put out Negativity
To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed.
Transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it.
That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity - that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are an essential part and characteristic of beauty.
All maps are distorted, they are not literal fact.
I blur things to make everything equally important and equally unimportant. I blur things so that they do not look artistic or craftsmanlike but technological, smooth and perfect. I blur things to make all the parts a closer fit. Perhaps I also blur out the excess of unimportant information.
If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.
For the Eye altering alters all;
The Senses roll themselves in fear
And the flat Earth becomes a Ball.
I could never explain how the image and the reality merge, and how they somehow extend and beautify each other.
Proper deformity shows not in the fiend
So horrid as in woman.
Our camera does not produce pretty pictures, but exact duplications that, through our renunciation of photographic effects, turn out to be relatively objective. The photo can optically replace its object to a certain degree. This takes on special meaning if the object cannot be preserved.
How can you break that which bends?
They swapped the real thing for an image of the real thing.
The more distortions we have the less attention we can pay to realizing our potential and self- actualization of our personality
Art is rearranging and grouping mistakes.
Perception is transformed, and a new reality is born.
The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?
Images are altered in many ways, to many degrees, and for many reasons, so it's important for viewers to be informed of both.
What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic.
Later: I'm seeing everything in pieces and fractions, like a series of photographs shuffled randomly together.
Some things are clearer from a distance.
In the end, maybe the correct language would be how the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it. A photograph is not what was photographed, it's something else.
Hope, objects in mirror are closer than they appear.
The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.
Reality confounds image.
Magic happens in the rewrite!
What some people invent the rest enlarge.
By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.
You know, like when you look in the mirror and the thing you see is not the thing as it really is.
Hope, objects in mirror than they appear.
Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.
Nowhere is our vision more distorted than when we turn it on ourselves.
When we take a picture, we have a negative. We put the right solution on it and, suddenly, the picture comes to life. So what do we do? We take the negative and turn it into a positive.
To see things in surprising ways, you have to extend yourself a bit.
When everything's twisted, what's normal ends up looking weird too.
Animation is manipulating the difference.
Unbalance so as to re-balance.
bent ostentatiously to her work.
First get the facts, you can distort them later
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
How could she have imagined that it would be possible to live, to move, in the unnatural field of Virek's wealth without suffering distortion? Virek had taken her up, in all her misery, and had rotated her through the monstrous, invisible stresses of his money, and she had been changed.
Sometimes we must forge distance to gauge clarity in our vision and perception.
I do not see eye to eye with the camera.
What probably distorts everything in life is that one is convinced that one is speaking the truth because one says what one thinks.
By changing the context in which two things are compared, you submerge certain features and force others to the surface. "It
Sometimes two people could look at the same picture and see different images. Position determines perspective.
Our perspective equals our reality, tweak the perspective and you tweak your reality.
How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that are more than literal truth.
...reflection can transform something familiar.
Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natural" size, certain truths must be "strained" in order that the public may form a just idea of them.
Sufficiently close examination changes the thing being observed.
cases and stretched
Grips slipped. Hers had from every surface. She's shaped nothing after all, only been crushed and reshaped. No wonder she felt for the brownstones, the cripples, now filling chaotically with no regard for her plan.
There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.
Turn and face the strange changes.
willing the letters to rearrange themselves into words she wanted to read. "8:05
Not only does a lens distort forms, but the ordinary plate makes an unholy mess of colour in its tone relations. Yellow becomes black, and blue white. Black sunflowers against a white sky - what a travesty!
Conformity is deformity
The creation of a work of art must of necessity, as a result of entering into the specific dimensions of pictorial art, be accompanied by distortion of the natural form. For, therein is nature reborn.
His modesty amounts to deformity.
The path behind is twisted, the path ahead unknown.
You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.
However minutely labored the picture may be in the detail, the whole will have a false and even an unfinished appearance, at whatever distance, or in whatever light it can be shown.
When you are describing,
A shape, or sound, or tint;
Don't state the matter plainly,
But put it in a hint;
And learn to look at all things,
With a sort of mental squint.
You seek too much information and not enough transformation.
Warping begets warping in a nonlinear, self-bootstrapping manner. This is a fundamental feature of Einstein's relativistic laws, and so different from everyday experience. It's somewhat like a hypothetical science-fiction character who goes backward in time and gives birth to herself.
The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
How do you want us to tune the lens and our eyes are filled with tears
The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.
So I was, like most artists, deformed by my art.
I often had to pass over photographs because in a mass of animals invariably one would be wandering in the wrong direction, thereby disrupting the pattern I was trying to achieve. Today the ability to digitally alter this disruption is at hand.
You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.
never ceases to transform.
The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.
A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance.