A woman stands before a blue screen in a museum.
The image asks who is allowed to look, and how meaning is shaped by the place that frames the act of seeing.

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Ways of Seeing

Life between the US and Ireland showed me how culture shapes what we notice. In America I kept seeing food ads repeat an idea, “You’re not going to believe how we found another way to add more cheese.” Back in Ireland I noticed how uneasy men were about a simple hug. Life in two cultures reveals insight and trains the mind in ways others overlook. Stays. Our Third Culture training explores this with real structure and purpose. DM for details.

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Ways of Seeing

Sometimes the simple act of being forced to wait changes how we think. When we can’t hurry the moment, our attention sharpens. Light shifts, clouds move, and what was once background becomes the only thing that matters. The waiting itself starts to quiet the mind.

When your body feels overloaded, looki at something that moves slowly, like a cloud, and follow it. While your attention rests there, you may find the rest of the world fades a little.

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“Seeing comes before words”*…

Five years ago, (R)D featured John Berger’s award-winning– and more to the point, hugely-influential– television series Ways of Seeing (in some ways a response to Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation series). The broadcast was followed by an adaptation of Berger’s scripts that became a book of the same name.

Now that hugely influential work is available in a gorgeous web version…

Based on the 1972 BBC series and comprised of 7 essays, 3 of which are entirely pictoral, Ways of Seeing is a seminal work which examines how we view art…

A beautiful new way to enjoy (and learn from) a classic: “Ways of Seeing“

* John Berger (the first line of Ways of Seeing)

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As we ponder perspective, we might pause to celebrate the induction, on this date in 2005, into the the National Toy Hall of Fame of a plaything that invites constant creativity– the cardboard box.

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"Sometimes I say to myself that the storyteller is Death's secretary"

Most well-known for his excellent "Ways of Seeing" TV series and books—amongst other works—John Berger also wrote and presented 'About Time'.

It's a collection of meditations on time, death, story telling, the nature of being, the Present and Berger's humanism, as always, shines through.

https://youtu.be/USzGCdoLhjQ?si=ht4fMrWTwMR3THEG

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