Every second, we encounter a hundred different little images. Shape, color, line, space, dimension, and value bombard us. We are in a culture where we can print anything anywhere, and we take great advantage of this, plastering our thoughts, and things we sell everywhere.
Look anywhere and you'll see a symbol. Glance at a wall, you're bound to see a word. What is it about us humans and our need to produce shape and text? What attracts us to it?
Lets take a look at comics; a series of pictures, ranging from fairly realistic drawings to highly abstracted caricatures that tell a story in sequence, mostly mixed with words. Why are we drawn to these? In Understanding Comics, our abstracted tour guide explains that as we shift the human form to realistic to abstract, it allows us to see ourselves in it. Realism allows us to look at the beauty of the outside. Abstracted form allows us to look inside, and "see" something inside of us. Abstraction reflects, and sometimes in reflects things we didn't see before.
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