John Berger Draw To That Moment Analysis

Perception is the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses or in other words the way we as humans understands and and interpret what we see and what we hear. Language and images like paintings, drawings and photographs are usually a way to express what someone is thinking, the way we see things is structured by what we know and what we believe. In the essay “Drawn To That Moment” by John Berger, he examine the nature of direct perception experience, and the construction of a representation through time. To fully explained this idea in his essay, he discusses his experience of drawing his father’s body and that the dead body of his father begins to come to life even though the painting was finished and framed. …show more content…
To him all he was drawing was his dead father in a casket and by the end of the drawing, by the end of the experience of reliving and feeling the history between him and his father the painting had a different meaning to him. According to him, “drawing or painting force us to stop and and enter its time” (421), by drawing his father he was force to go back in time and go through with his father history and legacy. Before the drawing his father was dead but by the end he still physically dead but he lives vicariously through the drawing. Berger shows us the readers that perception or how we human see things and understand their effects on us could always change, it all depends on space and time . It all depends on who we are and where we are in our history, and where are we are going with our journey. Our history is vital in terms of perception, it shapes how we see and understand what is in front of us, we all could be staring at one image but we all seeing in a different light because we all have our own beliefs and motto. Those beliefs were all constructed by our cultures which is our history and