When we read texts, we tend to look over the words, phrases, sentences, and

paragraphs, and we try to comprehend, understand, and make a sense out of all of
it. This is just like seeing, when we see things, we try to focus and pay attention to
details on a subject, we try to process them and produce our insights out of it based
on our knowledge, set of values, and dispositions.
In seeing as reading in all visual arts, there are techniques that we consider
before we make sense out of the subjects. We have here the selection, omission,
framing, and evaluation. With all of these techniques we must always remember that
seeing is also an act of not seeing. There are three things how this occurs. First
here, we see things that we are actively engaging with on our surrounding. Meaning
to say, rather than reproducing everything within our line of sight, we better
understand things where we focus our eyes upon. Second one, if we want to focus
and make sense of a thing that we are seeing then, other details in view must remain
invisible. For example, if you are looking on a picture of a person, but you want to
focus on the view or scene on the background then, you tend to make the person on
the picture invisible this is because you try to omit the person on the picture just to
create your own insight upon the totally of the image itself. Lastly, seeing is also an
act of not seeing because of the extent to which we see, focus on, and pay attention
to the world around us. However, this happens depending on the context or the
environment where we find ourselves. We either limit or widen the scope of our sight
depending on the people, their history, current events, and sort of these things with
their presence within a specific context.
With these various techniques in seeing as reading visual arts, cultural
trajectories and our cultural literacy are the two important factors to determine on
what technique to use and optimize. How we see things, how we interpret them, and
how we create sense and insights out of it are mainly based upon our knowledge
about the fields of culture, upon our set of values, and our disposition in life. Meaning
to say, we tend to either select what we want to see, omit what we do not want to
see, we frame things base on what we want to picture out, evaluate on the things we
only want to assess, and create visual text based on our culture, the extend of what
we know, and the principles we uphold. These becomes your references on how to
understand things visually on a particular manner and on what technique upon
reading visual art you are going to utilize. For example, you are looking and paying
attention on a sunset upon the horizon. What you see might give you exuberance
and would aid you to interpret the scene as serene and a tranquil one. This is
because you based your insight on what you have experienced or what set of values
you uphold or even what you have felt upon the context. This interpretation of yours
might be different with others as we have diversity with cultural trajectories and
literacy, others might find it apathetic, or an impassive scene or others even have
changes on how their perspectives over time. The eyes that you have, and you use
for seeing are mainly influence by your cultural trajectories and literacy, this means
that an absolute “new visual experience” might be impossible as we always refer to
our habitus on how we categorize, how we try to comprehend, and how we interpret
things.