CHAPTER 2: THE SELF AND PERCEPTION (PART 1)

Before we moved on to the next chapter, we did a small group activity in class on chapter 1. We were supposed to list down the skills we need for the five form of communications-intrapersonal, interpersonal, small group and organization, public, and mass communication. Honestly, we felt a little bit lost listing those skills down.But, still we managed to pen down some points (courtesy of our human communication text book).   

P/s:The text book was just our reference...seriously we did put effort 
    and rack our brains to get those points.

Enough of that, let's move on to Chapter 2!

What is PERCEPTION?

In the second lesson, we learned that perception is the process in which we start to be aware of objects, events and especially people through our five senses - touch, smell, sight taste and sound. It is a continuous series of processes that blend into one another. Besides that, in class, we were shown a few pictures which contain hidden faces. The results were varied. Why is it so? This is because what we see would depend on our own perception.  We had included some illustrations as examples.

The first two illustrations are by Octavio Ocampo, a Mexican surrealist artist. He paints illusions in which a scene is set up to create the shapes and outlines of a face (Mayhem & Muse, 2013).Each of his illusion paintings has a sense of duality which means you can see two different things in a piece of artwork (Mayhem & Muse, 2013).

source: http://www.visionsfineart.com/ocampo/aa_index.html

source: http://www.visionsfineart.com/ocampo/aa_index.html

In the first illustration, some people would see a butterfly with some flowers.On the other hand; in the second illustration some would perceive it as a family of birds with a nest in the tree.

For both illustrations, for those who look at it in different perspective, they would see a face of a lady instead.

Below is a masterpiece by Ukrainian artist Oleg Shuplyak who masters the optical illusion in his amazing scenic oil paintings (eedopa, 2012). Through strategically placed characters, objects and coloring, his surrealist works depict some of the most historical famous figures, including Van Gogh and Shakespeare (eedopa, 2012). The second image is very easily recognizable in many of his paintings, that those who look at his artwork might miss the original image (eedopa, 2012).

Source:http://eedopa.blogspot.com/2012/06/hidden-faces.html

In this picture, some people would see a picture of a shepherd resting near a tree bark with while others would see a face of a man instead.

By observing the pictures, we have learnt that our perceptions would differ from others. In communication, due to our different kinds of perceptions towards a person, misunderstanding usually occurs. Let us find out why this happens in Part 2 of this topic.