Dimensions

Dimensions 

Elena liked experimenting with colors, forms, dimensions and unexpected features. She used special software, sometimes, she blended two or more different tools.

Imagination, Illusions, Fantasies and Dreams

The importance of imagination has ben underlined by important thinkers, and by history itself. Clearly, visual and other authoring arts seem impossible without the aforementioned human capability. Scientifically, psychologists would try to explain this characteristic, while neuroscientists would look at which brain areas and/or neural clusters become especially activated during the procedure. Nonetheless, despite supported as well as disproved, scientific theories, the following pictures aim at conveying some of the imagery related to these imagined worlds, regardless of underlying motivations and applicable methodological explanations.

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Perception and Afterimage. That's the title Elena chose for this strange artwork in dark colors. She created dozens of colorful images, and she continued.

Afterimages are an optical illusion, which consists of an image persisting after one has ceased looking at a picture or light source. Elena liked working with them.

I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with (Sonia Sotomayor)

Positive afterimages are less documented, and are believed to be due to neural adaptation.

A glimpse into the magic jungle (fictional, as all of the images on this page

I try and look up to the sky, but my eyes burn (Deftones, song lyrics, very nice view of our lives)

Conversely, negative afterimages are formed due to their imprint on the retina (the lining at the back of the eye).

Quoth the Raven: "Nevermore!" (Edgar Allan Poe, one of Elena's favorite poems, may be the only one she liked.)

Just a block of different shapes and forms in black and white, one of Elena's researches through the art.

As outlined elsewhere, vision is achieved thanks to photoreceptors, or rods and cones. But it may be just an illusion as everything else in our lives.

According to the opponent theory, cones, which are the ones that can register color, get less sensitive with prolonged stimulation and transmit a weaker signal.

Optimism is the key (Will Champion, but who knows if he realy wrote it or if it is an invention, another illusion, who knows. The wole world is an illusion.)

Optimist: I see a light at the end of the tunnel! Pessimist: I see a freight train! Realist: I see two dummies sitting on the rail tracks!

As can be seen in the images below, red leaves a green afterimage, blue a yellow one and yellow a blue one.

Black and white constitute likewise opposite colors. A perfect example of afterimage and perception. But there's no end to our vision.

One has to stare at the square for 1 minute, then look at the white space. A corresponding afterimage should appear.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit (Aristotle. But in the real life we cannot see a habit as if it were a habit, unfortunately

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years (Abraham Lincoln, he was a clever man)

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony (Mahatma Gandhi, an Indian philosopher)

I look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter (Walt Disney)

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision (Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader.)

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud (Henry Rollins, find yourself who is this guy.)

My optimism wears Loboutins and is heavy (Meg Jorgensen, one of the most famous writers.)

There’s a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what’s down the road (Conor Oberst)

Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks (Olivia Wilde)

I don’t think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy (Patricia Ireland)

I don’t think you lead by enthousiasm. I think you lead by depression, love and struggle (Megan Jorgensen, the great)