Seeing isn’t what we think it is. What we call seeing is “looking.” Looking is when you go out and you look at something. You have a number of facts about that thing and you put them together as a mental construct. When students in my class look at the model often they are not seeing it. Paul Klee said to his students, “Yes. I want to draw what I see, but first you must see what you draw.” — Jane Rosen: LOOKING WITH YOUR WHOLE BODY: A conversation with acclaimed artist Jane Rosen, PARABOLA, Fall 2011. Thank you, parabola-magazine.

Seeing isn’t what we think it is. What we call seeing is “looking.” Looking is when you go out and you look at something. You have a number of facts about that thing and you put them together as a mental construct. When students in my class look at the model often they are not seeing it. Paul Klee said to his students, “Yes. I want to draw what I see, but first you must see what you draw.”

— Jane Rosen: LOOKING WITH YOUR WHOLE BODY: A conversation with acclaimed artist Jane Rosen, PARABOLA, Fall 2011.

Thank you, parabola-magazine.