"neuroscience and its ways of visualizing the mind and human thought are becoming the vital and visual metaphors of our time. it is our version of the truth, for better or worse." -how to see the world 75
The way we see the world changes based on what we figure out. We never truly know the truth. We just get closer to our perceived truth. Neuroscience is just the newest form of that.
"we should think of looking as a whole form of doing, or a performance" -how to see the world 85
Really this applies to everything. Everything we do is a performance. When you look at something you like you are engaging with it thus creating an interaction. There can't be performances without looking and vice versa.
"Men Survey women before treating them. Consequently how a women appears to a man can determine how she will be treated." -ways of seeing 46
humans are visual creature. Men taking the dominating role in society will be the on lookers. This puts women in a position to have to appear to the decide how they will be treated. It is how it is in a patriarchal society.
"The prize is to be owned by a judge - that is to say to be available for him" - was of seeing 52
this quote makes it seem like women's goal is to make them self to be available to men. As men tend be the judges in our society.
"Mutu’s speaking in her native Kikuyu tongue—deep anxiety regarding an unspecified event about to take place"
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These are some elements that bakes Mutu's work special Her connection to her culture and her critique on stereotypes in her work.
Mutu, who eventually crumples to the ground in a fetal position. Considering the culminating image of defeat, the pouring mud sounds incongruously like a peacefully trickling fountain.
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