analogy, of a talk.

i heard curtis mcmullen talk today, but an acquaintance of mine overslept and missed it. when he asked me what i thought of it, i said,

  imagine someone showing you artwork, in the form of photographs. imagine also that you are extremely colorblind .. maybe you can only see a few shades of green, and you know for a fact that the photographs are in full color and fine resolution.

looking through the exhibit, sometimes the lighting is dark, and half the shots are during sunset hours, where green is impossible to see. but in the other half of the shots, what you see in green is amazing, brilliant, and insightful.

so you ask yourself: what would these look like, if you could see all the spectrum, if you had sharp eyesight, and if you could appreciate the artistic motifs and cultural references.

imagine how beautiful that could really be ..

that's what mcmullen's talk was like, i told him.