- Title
- Blind spots: trickery and the'opaque stickiness' of seeing
- Creator
- Simbao, Ruth K
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147303
- Identifier
- vital:38624
- Identifier
- https://0-hdl.handle.net.wam.seals.ac.za/10520/EJC176319
- Description
- In a flash the spot will disappear, and in its place - and this is the interesting thing - there is nothing. According to experimental psychology, the eye does not fill in the blind spot, but tricks us into thinking that it has been filled. The blind spot is pure absence of vision, and cannot be experienced at all. The blind spot is an invisible absence : an absence whose invisibility is itself invisible (Elkins 1996 : 170).
- Format
- 17 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Image and Text, Simbao, R., 2015. Blind spots: trickery and the'opaque stickiness' of seeing. Image and Text: a Journal for Design, 25(1), pp.175-191., Image and Text volume 25 number 1 175 191 January 2015 1020-1491
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