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I don't think that I have very good spatial intelligence. I never could draw or paint very realistically, although I nevere practiced much. But anytime that I have it was always with good intention, and all the aspects were there and represented, just in a more impressionistic way.
I suspect that I think much more symbolically. I have, what I would consider, a very good memory, and I'm constantly observing and absorbing everything I experience rather readily and unconsciously. Often I remember people who don't remember me, or even more specific things like what a certain person was wearing at a certain time. I make a lot of connections in a systematic way.
One thing that I am certain of is my introversion. When I'm walking around at school or any place where there's a lot of people and things going on, I feel like I'm 'looking' at the world far more than I am 'in' it. As a result I form a much more subjective view than an uncritical, objective one.
Within the last year, I've done far more reading than I've ever done in my life and become much more musically aware, through playing and listening. It's even been said that music is "pre-symbolic."
So bringing it back to the spatial thing, I think I'm starting to realize that I don't really look at things how they 'are', hence I can't draw or represent things realistically. But I think that is much more common to the contemporary worldview anyway. There's much more text, symbols, and representation. Essentially the "virtual world" that I mentioned in the last post. This is obvious of modern art in general.
I'd like to try and gain (back) some of that perception through drawing or painting, and see if I notice some aspects of what I've stated here, and if I'll recognize a difference in perspective.
I suspect that I think much more symbolically. I have, what I would consider, a very good memory, and I'm constantly observing and absorbing everything I experience rather readily and unconsciously. Often I remember people who don't remember me, or even more specific things like what a certain person was wearing at a certain time. I make a lot of connections in a systematic way.
One thing that I am certain of is my introversion. When I'm walking around at school or any place where there's a lot of people and things going on, I feel like I'm 'looking' at the world far more than I am 'in' it. As a result I form a much more subjective view than an uncritical, objective one.
Within the last year, I've done far more reading than I've ever done in my life and become much more musically aware, through playing and listening. It's even been said that music is "pre-symbolic."
So bringing it back to the spatial thing, I think I'm starting to realize that I don't really look at things how they 'are', hence I can't draw or represent things realistically. But I think that is much more common to the contemporary worldview anyway. There's much more text, symbols, and representation. Essentially the "virtual world" that I mentioned in the last post. This is obvious of modern art in general.
I'd like to try and gain (back) some of that perception through drawing or painting, and see if I notice some aspects of what I've stated here, and if I'll recognize a difference in perspective.