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About Me

Location:
Canada, Montreal
Gender:
Female
Areas of expertise:
Design - Graphic, Communication, Sculpting, Drawing,, Qigong instructor
My website links:
la sculpteure, Lauren Trimble Designs, Montreal Healing Arts Community
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  • A comment on Conversation: Why is visual literacy discouraged in most cultures & WHAT CAN WE DO to change that?

    Oct 31 2011: I think visual literacy is more than the line, dot and ground. Words are always symbolic but images, especially moving images, are direct and can convey a lot of information. We rarely discuss the effect it may have on us, although we often talk about the story or the metaphor the images are presenting to us. I remember my design teacher discussing all the intense visual imagery in the Lord of the Rings and how that must affect a young child without intellectual buffers to interpret or categorize that kind of information. It would be like reading Tolstoy's War and Peace at the age of six and how often does that happen? So I think it is very important to teach how visual image is read, how it affects us, and how to be critical about what we are exposing ourselves to, particularly when there is often no choice such as a billboard or a bus ad which is in the public space.
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    A reply on Conversation: Why is visual literacy discouraged in most cultures & WHAT CAN WE DO to change that?

    Oct 31 2011: Art actually makes millions of dollars and is still a legitimate investment along with real estate and stocks. Go to a high end gallery some time and look at the price tags.
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    A comment on Talk: Nathalie Miebach: Art made of storms

    Oct 21 2011: I would love to know if this music is available to hear as longer recordings?

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