Conversation of Sight in Collage

The ordinary man’s eye is a sextant useful for measuring form only. The artist’s eye surveys form and color both, and by juxtaposing shades uses each as a compass to measure the other.

– from Sens-Plastique, by Malcolm de Chazal (edited and translated by Irving Weiss; New York: SUN ,1979)

Conversation of Sight (2012). Digital collage created & copyright © by Eric Edelman. All rights reserved.

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• Claudia September 4, 2012 at 6:02 pm edit

  Great collage and words!

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  • Eric Edelman September 5, 2012 at 3:39 am edit

    Thank you very much, Claudia!

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• Aussiepomm September 4, 2012 at 9:18 pm edit

  Interesting composition here… Love the colours!

  Mines up as well at AussiePomm – Car Rally!!!

  Have a great WW!!

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  • Eric Edelman September 5, 2012 at 3:38 am edit

    Thanks very much–I’m glad you like it!

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• alissa apel September 4, 2012 at 10:00 pm edit

  Sight and knowledge combined as one.

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  • Eric Edelman September 5, 2012 at 3:37 am edit

    Thanks for your thoughtful comment, Alissa. Yes indeed: sight and knowledge combined. Which is not very surprising, since vision is arguably our noblest sense, and the pursuit of knowledge one of our noblest endeavors.

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• Layla Morgan Wilde (Cat Wisdom 101.com) September 4, 2012 at 11:25 pm edit

  I like your trio of visionnaires. By sheer coincidence I did a non WW post on how our moods effect our vision, physically and metaphorically.

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  • Eric Edelman September 5, 2012 at 3:33 am edit

    Thanks for visiting and for your kind comment, Layla! I like your word “visionnaires” and will adopt it, if you don’t mind. And I’ll be visiting your post soon.

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• Daryl - My Eyes September 5, 2012 at 4:32 am edit

  another week, another wonderful collage … this one really intrigues me, I need to read some more de Chazal

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  • Eric Edelman September 5, 2012 at 3:16 pm edit

    Thank you, Daryl–I appreciate your kind comment! Yes, de Chazal is wonderful, even when one doesn’t agree with what he writes. I highly recommend him. Hope you’re having a great WW!

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• stevebethere September 5, 2012 at 4:52 am edit

  Brilliant and imaginative as usual

  I had a lot of trouble commenting here again I couldn’t comment at all late last night was coming up with constant site errors

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  • Eric Edelman September 5, 2012 at 3:22 pm edit

    Thanks very much, Steve!

    My apologies for your trouble linking up; I had some difficulties myself. Apparently it was due to a WordPress plug-in not properly registering. When I updated the plug-in, functionality was restored. (Ah, the aggravations of the Net…perhaps you could dig up some appropriately humorous post satirizing them!) Hope you’ve had a fab WW.

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    • stevebethere September 6, 2012 at 5:01 am edit

      Ahh glad you got it sorted some of the plugins can be a pain sometimes last time I had problems with one I had to FTP in and rename the plugin to disable it to get the blog back …an absolute pain grrr heheh!

      Have a great weekend Eric

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      • Eric Edelman September 6, 2012 at 7:43 am edit

        Thanks, Steve! I appreciate your understanding. It sounds like you have a lot of expertise in these matters–how did you learn to work with plug-ins, FTP, re-naming, and all the rest of this alphabet soup?

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• Judy Haughton-James September 5, 2012 at 11:15 am edit

  Interesting collage on the eye. Thanks for hosting.

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  • Eric Edelman September 5, 2012 at 3:24 pm edit

    Thanks very much for your visit and comment, Judy–Have a great rest of WW!

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• Leovi September 5, 2012 at 1:03 pm edit

  Good composition, I like. Really exquisite. Greetings.

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  • Eric Edelman September 5, 2012 at 4:13 pm edit

    Thank you very much, Leovi! I really appreciate your visit and your comment.

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• Paula J September 5, 2012 at 2:51 pm edit

  Hi Eric I had mentioned before that I was having trouble linking up with your WW posts, and I just discovered that I can’t in GoogleChrome, but have no problem with InterentExplorer. Weird but I’m back

  Next I’m going to follow you on Twitter. I’m @papercrushcraft

  Happy WW!
  Paula
  lifeasweknowitbypaula.blogspot.com

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  • Eric Edelman September 5, 2012 at 4:33 pm edit

    Thank you very much, Paula! I appreciate your perseverance, and the further clue about Chrome. (That is weird! I’ll pass it on to the webmaster and see what she recommends.) Thanks for going to follow me on Twitter; I will follow you as well. Happy WW!

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• Leovi September 6, 2012 at 1:19 am edit

  The all-seeing eye.

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  • Eric Edelman September 6, 2012 at 1:41 am edit

    Yes. And as it says next to the All-Seeing Eye on our paper currency, annuit coeptis (He has agreed to our undertakings). Thanks for your comment.

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