Pleasure With Seeing

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"We judge colors by the company they keep. We compare them to one another, and revise according to the time of day, light source, memory."

Vision for me, is the first sense that brings some type of emotion or thought into my head. Whenever I see something that is familiar to me and has a memory linked to it, I get nostalgic and memories that are linked to what I’m looking at play throughout my head. For example, when I look at a piano, I remember sitting with my mom, practicing during warm summer evenings, with the birds chirping outside. Or when I see a tennis racket, I imagine opening up a fresh can of tennis balls, bright green, playing with my friends on a clay court during a sunny spring day. The image of the tennis court I added, is somewhat accurate to what I think of when I see my tennis racket.

Another example of vision to me is when it pertains to food. As we’ve said in class numerous times, we eat first with our eyes. The color and the overall texture of the food is what strikes me first. I don’t want to make this sound like I am a picky eater, but the chances are if something looks really good, the higher chance I will eat it/crave it.
Vision can also be thought of in another sense, in terms of biology. Pollinators like bees, are dependent on their vision to find attractive, colorful flowers so they can get their nectar reward. However bees see a different spectrum of light. If you were to look at a chart showing wavelengths of light, bees can see from 300-650 nano-meters, meaning that they can see ultraviolet light, which humans can't. To the right is a picture of what a dandelion might look to us, but for a bee, it looks completely different. These colors are what attracts pollinators.




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  1. Karen IizukaMay 3, 2020 at 8:03 AM

    I like how you include a different, more biological perspective to vision! It's so cool that bees have the ability to see ultraviolet light. I know that some people who have aphakia (condition in which an individual has no eye lens or has had their eye lens surgically removed) have the ability to see some frequencies of ultraviolet light. It makes me wonder how different things would be if we were able to see the world in the way that bees (and many other insects) do.

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