Circles, Cycles, and So Much More

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Circles, Cycles, and So Much More

By Kathy Custren
Circles: Opening our Minds to Dimension

Part of our awareness, down to each and every single person, includes how we relate to various images and pictures. We likely envision a personal space or comfort zone around us, perhaps as circles surrounding our dots of being. Considering the amount of time we spend seeking and searching our inner and outer selves, sometimes we get a little too involved in what we see. What’s more, we tend to get excited and interested in finding what exists beyond whatever our particular circle may be.

People process and render images in different ways. The way we depict things can differ even further, depending on our level of artistic skill. For example, if you asked a handful of people to draw a picture of a person, their collective artwork could include everything from a stick figure, a clothed stick figure, possibly a body outline, and, if lucky, an almost picture-perfect pencil sketch with light, shading, and dimension.

Processing what we see and conveying it can vary widely, including the shadow and light that make up a basic image. Most easily, many of us will think and convey basic shapes; for example, a circle. Circles may actually mean anything that is round, since many of us do not have the ability or materials to render and convey much more than the basic idea. Basic shapes are rather one-dimensional and flat, until we add other nuances and think beyond the flat image, bringing flat circles together to create an orb.

 
Cycles: Higher Processing

Speaking of orbs, an easy example to consider would be our solar system. Most images of the solar system that many of us may recognize from school books consist of the flat images of circles on larger orbits surrounding the sun. In recent years, with greater animation, we are able to take those flat, book images and make them into a movie that shows us how the planetary orbs move throughout their cycles. These cycles and the circles that run on them can vary in their appearance, depending on where we are and what is happening.

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