"We don't see things the way they are but the way we are"
I don't know whose phrase it is, but my father told me and since that day I always try to remember it. It's obvious for everyone that we all live in a shared world, but instead of agreeing to everything, we fight and have different opinions. Different points of view.
To the question 'What do you see in the painting?', there are infinite posible answers. I can't even imagine all of them, just a few such as 'A woman', 'Several spheres', 'Both', 'Just a painting by Dalí'... Some people will like it, some will love it, some will simply hate it, there will be an amount of people who won't give a damn about all of this. We do not think the same way, not even close, and that is where I want to get.
We have never seen Dalí's picture. He painted it, he created it and he might have not seen it as well. Galatea de las Esferas has never been really seen by anyone, because its amount of colours, shapes, lights and shadows, lines,... they have been looked at by subjective human beings who can't get rid of their innate subjectivity - forgive the redundancy. It is no one's fault, but the truth is I can see things in that painting that you are most likely not to see, and vice versa. We look at the things under our point of view, our preconceived ideas, our experiences and who we are. We make the things we see similar to us.
This conclusion is not always well received. If we think life is not worth it, what does it say about ourselves? Truth is not ugly, but the fact that we don't want to accept we are is.
One more point before I end this publication: this whole 'point of view' and 'seeing' stuff has reminded me to the phrase 'I see you' from Avatar by James Cameron. It sounded as if the Na'Vi were eliminating their own subjectivity to actually see the other and real person behind it. I like it.
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