{"id":39591,"date":"2017-05-03T12:23:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T12:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labri.fr\/perso\/barla\/blog\/?p=39591"},"modified":"2017-05-03T12:23:56","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T12:23:56","slug":"on-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labri.fr\/perso\/barla\/blog\/?p=39591","title":{"rendered":"On Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/><em>by Jonathan Miller<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The natural world reveals itself in borrow light. &#8211; p.15 <em>Nice quote for the Light Canvas!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the case of the illusion of reflective surfaces, it seems likely that a necessary condition for our perceiving them is the recognition that the imagery is reflected &#8211; why else would we credit the area in which they occur with a surface? In which case, the next step is to see what happens if we blot out the pictorial evidence of its being a reflection. &#8211; p. 73 <em>Follows a very interesting set of rectifications of a convex mirror to make it look like a classic picture.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The perceived lustre is caused by the imagery of something reflected in the surface of the object in question. And yet the visibility of the reflection is subordinated to the object itself, so that what we consciously see is a lustrous object, apparently unaware of the fact that the lustre itself is composed of recognisable imagery. What we are witnessing here is the perceptual competition between two recognisable objects or scenes and the impossibility or seeing two things at one and the same time. &#8211; p.113\u00a0 <em>There&#8217;s actually a third interpretation, which is the painting itself with its deposited blotches of pigment.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jonathan Miller The natural world reveals itself in borrow light. &#8211; p.15 Nice quote for the Light Canvas! In the case of the illusion of reflective surfaces, it seems likely that a necessary condition for our perceiving them is the recognition that the imagery is reflected &#8211; why else would we credit the area &#8230; <a title=\"On Reflection\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.labri.fr\/perso\/barla\/blog\/?p=39591\" aria-label=\"Read more about On Reflection\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[621],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labri.fr\/perso\/barla\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labri.fr\/perso\/barla\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labri.fr\/perso\/barla\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labri.fr\/perso\/barla\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labri.fr\/perso\/barla\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labri.fr\/perso\/barla\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39592,"href":"https:\/\/www.labri.fr\/perso\/barla\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39591\/revisions\/39592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labri.fr\/perso\/barla\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labri.fr\/perso\/barla\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labri.fr\/perso\/barla\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}