Perspective

Perspectives provide alternatives for the views of orientation. A perspective enables us to view things in various ways that exclude but also complement and enrich each other. Perspectival art and especially painting can teach us that, for instance, the eye does not see depth, but rather constructs it. Thus, all apparently natural optics can be seen as perspectival artistry.

In everyday orientation, a multiplicity of perspectives is always at work: we are accustomed to dealing with perspectives knowing that there are always different perspectives and that the texture of perspectives always changes in our orientation. As far as orientation is – and has to be – always in movement in order to keep up with the times, fixing one’s perspective is an exceptional and only temporal case. Usually one perspective leads to the next in a continuous crossover, and reorientation happens as a continuous shift of perspectives – the continuous shift of perspectives is orientation’s mode of continuity (chap. 5.3 and 5.4).

XII, 23, 43, 47-52, 101, 226-231, 239, 275

 

Glossary

Reinhard Mueller