Stephen McAvoy wrote:


> This goes down the old "we see what we expect to see" road, which is
> fascinating.

All it takes for me, is that I get "turned around" in my sense of 
directions.  Suddenly an environment I am used to "looks totally 
strange".  Yesterday I was walking around a park here called Marcus 
Garvey Gardens.  It lies directly across 5th Avenue.  The avenue just 
stops at one side then continues again on the other side.  I was on the 
north side of the park where 5th abutts but I *thought* I was on the 
south side.  Total disorientation.

  IMHO Huxley (A) was on the right path when he said that
> the mind is a reducing valve to the universe. It enables us to have an
> understandable view of it.

I loved Huxley's writings on art.  I especially liked the line that went 
something like: "If religion is the opiate of the masses, then surely 
draperies are the opiate of painters".  Loved his discussion of the late 
work of Goya.

> 
> 
>>I assume you are aware of this:
>>http://www.koopfilms.com/hockney/
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> 
> I saw it when it was first broadcast in the UK. Hence the mention of
> the camera obscura.
> 
I haven't seen the program.  I happened to read a bit about it recently, 
just what I could find on the web, but I didn't really dig in.  Put it 
off to later then lost the link.  I think it is pretty interesting 
though.  I had been trying turn up anything I could on the subject of 
Vermeer, and/or the Dutch painting of his time, and mirrors, in the hope 
that I could make some connections vis-a-vis Rene Bui's entry in POVCOMP.

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