The Polemics of Visual Thinking:

Conclusion

Any single approach to the mind and its processes " . . . highlights only a fraction of the experience of conscioussness, which includes inner monologues, crystallized concepts, reveries, fleeting as well as generic images, abstract pictures, visualized movements, and subjective feelings." (John-Steiner: p.87)

Cognitive psychology seeks the relationships of interconnected areas of understanding: "The power of visual thinking is that it illuminates and makes manifest this ability to conceptualize our experiences as structures in motion, as relationships." (Ibid: p.106) And it is in the unique power of images that we find the ability to express multiple meanings, even at its most choherent. We are turning into an age of nuance, and the image - as the personification of collapsed meanings - can become a powerful force in shaping our understanding of the world, each other, and ourselves.

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