The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Saturday November 6th, 2021
Words and Pictures by Jan Sand
Noam Chomsky, who is one of the most recognized experts on
the nature of language, estimates that human language began about twenty
thousand years ago. I am guessing this estimate is based on written
language which is rather different from communication vocally. Although
the paintings discovered in caves have been estimated to be created
about forty thousand years ago the quality of the pictures compares well
with the efforts of current artists and the depiction of animals is as
wonderful as the best of modern efforts. I have personal doubts that the
artists making these exquisite depictions merely grunted at each other.
Both words and pictures are a product of the human mind to abstract
and formulate individual qualities from sense input but visual imagery
seems much closer to what might be called reality than what can be done
with words. The simple description “The tall man in the peculiar hat”
evokes a completely different image from “The large rabbit in the top
hat” not only because the individual words are used differently but
someone reading the phrase from different cultures or varied eras also
would get a totally different image. Pictures are somewhat less limited.
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“Sound Spirals #poem by Saloni Kaul
“Sound like a breathing spiral moves both ways
Has its all-highs and has its lows.”
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Always something; the family edition 21#19 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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