The Observer

The Symbols

Red-Tailed Hawk, Shepherd Dog, Calico Cat, Platform Nest, Alder Tree, Poplar Trees, Desert Plain, Afternoon, Summer

Might Mean

Objectivity: focused on big picture, broad context, standing back, seeing things as they are, not interfering, contemplation, witnessing, distance from the world or from one’s individual perspective, impersonal

Sight: visual perception, observations, attention, watching or being watched, monitoring, keeping an eye on things, vigilance, alertness

Distinction: disparity, duality, clarity, simplicity, logic, abstraction, seeing and presenting things through a screen, framing, fragmentation, overlooking, some things or details falling out of sight

For Example

Movie Clips & Videos:

The Neighbor's Window - Oscar Winning Short Film

The magic of television - Being There

The Divided Brain – RSA Animate,
The Art of seeing in Schnabel's At Eternity's Gate,
Hidden in Plain Sight – The Science of Symbolism

Podcasts:
Breaking News (Radiolab),
Framing The Story (TED Radio Hour),
The Sudden Departure (This American Life),
How the Brain's Hemispheres Shapes the World We See (Hidden Brain),
Andrew Bird's Explanation Of Roma Fade (Song Exploder)

Writings:
Fables of the Hawk and Crow, The Problem With Mindfulness,
That's Just, Like, Your Opinion, Man: An Argument that Art is Objective

The Blind Spot, Perception, Objectivity, Inference, Visual Perception,
Inattentional Blindness Experiments, Computer Vision, Lens, Audience

"Our problem is that we have three words – the 'seer,' 'sees,' and the 'seen' – for one single activity, the experience of seeing. We then naturally assume that we are 'just' the seer which is totally divorced from the seen."

"Our symbolic map-making is precisely the process which superimposes boundaries on reality. To see a 'thing' is to think; to think is to picture 'things' to yourself–'thinking' and 'thinging' are thus two different names for the net of boundaries we toss over reality."

– Ken Wilber, No Boundary

Songs:
Roma Fade (Andrew Bird), Space Oddity (David Bowie)