Visio Vision

When looking at a sunset, we do not see it as a detailed, quantifiable object but rather as a being or a face that evokes various inexplicable emotions within us with its constantly changing and fluid expressions. It is difficult to understand how the varying hues of colour and light, the radiance of the sky and its transition into velvety darkness which softens the surrounding landscape, can induce such a surging up of emotion and how it has the power to alter our mood. Although every sunset is different and distinctive in its own way, we still do not know the face of a sunset the same way we recognise the faces of people. Nevertheless there is a certain intimacy in the occurrence, a recognition that is unintentional. This is not a privation however, but an opening onto the vast domain that is the world of perception. …show more content…
Many people tend to assume that we live in a world consisting of prefabricated objects and thus ignore the inevitable process of perception, which we all experience. The formation and interpretation of everything we see around us depends on that process and the way certain sights make us feel depend on past experiences. Not everyone is comforted or distressed by the same things; it is all subjective to the viewer. As the English author Douglas Adams explained, “Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.” (Clark,