Treachery and Perception
Some time ago, I was introduced to the Treachery of Images by Rene Magritte in what I assume was a British Lit class under Dr. Grasso (I became a Dad between then and now so everything's a little foggy), we learned about the idea that just because something like this pipe appears to be a certain way to me, it doesn't mean that it will look the same way to you. He explained how the pipe is not literally a physical pipe because it's a painting, but beyond that, it's a representation of a thousand different things depending on who was looking at the painting. To Dr. Grasso, it was a reminder of his childhood and a grandfather who smoked a pipe. To me it was a reminder of my teenage years when my hobby was restoring old pipes. This began my interest in what everyday objects in my personal life represented to me. To an extent, this specific class forced me to appraise my own mental real-estate and ask what & why certain objects or people bear more cognitive ...