March 2011

Today in Visual Literacy class a discussion was brought up concerning how visuals can make someone feel "spiritual." Some people thought that visuals can have an emotional affect on someone, but not a spiritual affect. They believed that visuals can not possibly give a "spiritual" meaning, because the word spiritual does not have a definition. Other people disagreed with this statement and said that visuals could definitely have a spiritual affect on people. They explained that emotional and spiritual can be very similar, but there is a difference between the two. They also explained that the people who tend to have spiritual emotions, are very religious people, or people that have had a spiritual or emotional background or something that happened to led them to believe this. I personally do think that a visual can affect a person spiritually. I am not an extremely religious person, but if I do see something spiritual that I like, I feel different than seeing a funny movie that I like. I actually have a cross tattoo, and every time I look at down at it, I could definitely say it has a spiritual affect on me. I've included a couple pictures that were defined as "spiritual" in class.