Meeting with Dr M Alborz
Today I had the pleasure of meeting with psychologist, Dr Alison M Alborz. We discussed a range of topics such as my art theory and her views on art therapy and psychology. She provided me with a reference from one of her students previous works that she thought would help me, this was the book Visual Methodologies: An introduction to research with visual methods, by Gillian Rose as well as a copy of Man and His Symbol by Carl Jung.
Visual Methodoligies: An introduction to researching with visual methods
This book begins by discussing the concept of culture in relation to visuals and meaning, exploring the concepts and distinction between vision and visuality expressing how vision is what we are capable of seeing but how visuality refers to how a vision is constructed, how we see. I was unsurprised to spot John Burger’s input, suggesting ‘seeing comes before words, the child looks and recognizes before it can speak’ I was pleased to read this as I have been a fan of Bergers books and work with the BBC so it was great to find in theme ideas, I feel visual language is its own form of communication, not only with each other but ourselves and our world therefore I feel this book will provide a great foundation to build on existing debates.
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