Wednesday, June 5, 2013

The What: You Don't Know What You Don't Know.


This piece was almost titled "Third Eye Blind" but a nineties band already took that name...besides...that's far too obvious.

The third eye has a variety of meanings and interpretations...I'll take a step back to Wikipedia for those explanations...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_eye

Looking at the third eye in the piece, you can see it's having a bit of trouble in comparison to the first or second eye. It's covered in a veil white...it doesn't have a particular focus...it doesn't really have any life. It stares forward, blocked by white, obstructed from whatever the other eyes are interested in. Since the "third eye" represents enlightenment or "spirituality" (whatever that means to you), this piece then is displaying someone who is unenlightened...someone who is lacking a certain knowledge.

The title then speaks to the propensity for people ignore that with which they are uncomfortable...instead of becoming more familiar, they put it out of their mind. Instead of trying to understand why someone else may do something you disagree with, they refuse to acknowledge any reasoning. Instead of exploring how something may apply, they act as if they are free from it's influence...as if because they don't agree, it is inconsequential.

The piece puts these tendencies front and center. You aren't so informed that you have made the correct  decision for yourself, you have ignored the other side to the point you barely see it's there...that it's not even an option...that you don't even recognize how you could be benefitting.

It's not just about being uninformed. It's not about being less knowledgeable. It's about assuming you are so right, that you don't even bother to acknowledge the other side is there.

If You Don't Know What You Don't Know, how do you know what you do know is actually right?

No comments:

Post a Comment