The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
-- Paul Tillich

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #PaulTillich #Ambiguity

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #LakeSantaFe #Florida

“It's strange, because in some ways, the human #brain struggles with #change, and the uncertainty and #ambiguity that comes with it. But as a species, we seem to have been driven to innovate and to move in different directions, to explore and be curious. So there's always been a tension between the two, and I think it's helpful to just accept that this is a part of our species' natural predisposition – to create change and to be slightly fearful of it.“

A neuroscientist's guide to future-proofing your brain and thinking smarter in the 21st Century

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260519-neuroscience-how-to-future-proof-your-brain-and-think-smarter-for-the-21st-century

Acting. One of the oddities that permeate the English language is the dual meanings of the verb “to act”.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/uncategorized/2010/07/acting

#acting #ToAct #ambiguity

Google destroyed the space between asking and knowing—and with it destroyed a cognitive state essential for original thought. The death of wondering.

https://riftlymedia.com/curiosity-died-when-google-made-everything-knowable/

#Ambiguity #behavior #culture #curiosity #technology

This article explains how sexual arousal can narrow attention and lead people to misinterpret ambiguous dating cues as genuine interest. It reports four studies showing that arousal increases optimistic interpretations of mixed signals, but not when rejection is clear.

This topic is of interest to psychology enthusiasts because it illuminates how physiological states shape perception and social judgment, highlighting the interplay between arousal, attention, and interpretation of social signals.

Article Title: Sexual arousal creates “tunnel vision” that makes ambiguous dating cues look like interest

Link to PsyPost Article: https://nolinkpreview.com/www.psypost.org/sexual-arousal-creates-tunnel-vision-that-makes-ambiguous-dating-cues-look-like-interest/

#DatingPsychology #Arousal #Perception #SocialCognition #Ambiguity #RejectionCues #TunnelVision #RomanticInterest #ExperimentalPsychology #Signaling

About a lost project,… reborn

My recent works explore anthropomorphism in vegetalia. These days, I have been busy working on ‘Dendruh’; a world in making where the genes of humans and plants combine to form surreal, botanical, anthropomorphic and ethereal beings, some of which have roots that float above the ground, gliding over and carrying a piece of earth along with them wherever they thrive. This project is slowly blooming at my tiny space in Vasai. Read more on it [here.]

Today’s post is a remembrance of those preliminary and some near-perfect paper-relief pieces that I lost while commuting to my college in the early months of 2020. An incomplete series that experiments with nuances while perceiving facial assets (eyes, lips, nose, etc.) and plays with the structure/anatomy of a FACE in general. It explores the possibilities of facial perception in a textured, mundane and malleable material as paper pulp.

I was utterly devastated when I realised that I had forgotten them on the luggage rack of the train’s coach. I was supposed to present them to my class teacher as part of my work.

And after a few years of working across a few fields and my own little ventures, I quietly set out to bring them back and tread through more new versions that delve into this sentiment.

The Main Form and its origin…

The form from left was the preliminary piece that represent a concept of multifacetedness of our perception and as a result our existence. I happened to use the same form in my later works as well and even in my photographic explorations in Self-Face Experiements.

About Multifacetedness in general

In these works, I delve more deeply into the experience of being multifaceted. I believe every individual owns infinitely possible behaviours/attitudes that they use towards each circumstance in life. We all are born multifaceted, but throughout the tides of life and the societal influences, we tend to stick to a behaviour pattern that ‘suits’ our ‘personality’ or our ‘imaginery ideal selves’. I have observed that people instinctively ‘choose’ to react to a situation only in a certain way that feels comfortable and bond with that attitude, calling it ‘their own’, without giving it another thought of how fragile our personalities usually are. That could sort of hinder the brain’s neuroplasticity.

I believe Multifacetedness is a blessing in disguise. It helps us adapt through tight situations and tough decisions in life. And that’s what I try to emphasize through this form. I attempt to paint a mythical being that is lucid, fluid and ambiguous. And through ambiguity, I touch upon the Pareidolic phenonmenon.

‘The Sensory Juxtapose‘ revamp

Anyway, after almost three years or so, I finally commenced working on the incomplete series. The pieces uphold the theme of perceiving facial assets and attempt to play with the same. Have a look into one of my ongoing series – Sensory Juxtapose