A picture represents just a thousand words......

The topics that sparked my interest of this week were about how bias is also present in pictures.

"A picture represents a thousand words", after this week, I think that quote needs an adjective describing not how many words, but instead what kind of words the picture conveys. It is interesting, no one is capable of not having bias. So the accurate representation of the picture depends on what your bias is or if you have a slightly open mind, what the photographer/artists' bias was while capturing that moment. I think this connects back to the compare-contrast in-class essay we did on the birds. The two authors had different backgrounds and therefore different perceptions of the birds. With that in mind, no one can take the same message from a picture, it will remind people of different moments, like Mrs. Dalloway, they will float from memory to present time connecting various sights, sounds, feelings...people.

Perspective is really what makes our world go round. Going past the literary world, into other fields, if different people hadn't thought of the same problem in a unique way, we wouldn't have the technology, food, music, language we are so fortunate (and unfortunate) to have access to now. (Unfortunate because: #thedress). From differences in what God rules us, to how to use a piece of cloth, perspective has shaped how the humans have evolved.

I want to go on about this, but it doesn't seem right to. That's just my bias, make your own as you please.


If you know why the gif is there.... kudos!!! :)