Art, Design, Aesthetics, Culture, and Philosophy
What is This Woman Holding?
An example of visual proxy from the cover of a 70s Playboy Magazine.
Literal interpretations — like “a stack of magazines” — are the quickest way our conscious minds process what we see while visual metaphors slip into that space just below the threshold of awareness.
REFLECTIONS
“It’s only cannibalism if we’re equals.”
—Sherman
“Bad taste is the root of all evil.”
—Sherman
“Culture is the difference between seduction and abduction.”
—Sherman
“Art is the name we give to our response to the mystery of existence”
—Sherman
