Metaphors on Vision

I often think about some of the concepts that arose in metaphors on vision. Brakhage starts out talking about vision through the eyes of the unknown as a baby. Babies and young children are new to the world, therefore their vision has not been corrupted by the knowledge which adults have. We start out knowing nothing; Light, color, objects, movement, etc is are all up to the imagination until we put names and meanings to these things. Therefore the imagination of our mind becomes more and more limited. Thinking back to my world as a young child, my vision and memory seems like a blur or a dream, perhaps because my imagination was so large and un-relatable to my perception now. Artist and those who try to break-apart parts of the world in order to recreate them seem to be the closest to achieving this open and imaginative vision. It reminds me a lot of a project we have been working on in foundations with Philip. Our task was to bring in objects from home that interested us. We then had to spend 4 hours making sketch after sketch of this object recreated differently each time. Philip instructed us to think of the object like we were aliens with no idea what these objects were.  At first it was difficult trying to make multiple recreations of a simple box, however the more I looked at the box and played with it, the more interesting it became.