I often think in pictures, signs and symbols. Do you?

This body of work was made by composing ‘parts’ and/or ‘pieces’ of visual texts, illustrations and symbolic language to create a ‘whole.’ The work is a quiet visual poem that the audience can interpret intuitively through signs and symbols that function as visual words.

“Visual thinking, also called visual/spatial learning or picture thinking is the phenomenon of thinking through visual processing.[1] Visual thinking has been described as seeing words as a series of pictures. It is common in approximately 60–65% of the general population.[1] "Real picture thinkers", those who use visual thinking almost to the exclusion of other kinds of thinking, make up a smaller percentage of the population. Research by child development theorist Linda Kreger Silverman suggests that less than 30% of the population strongly uses visual/spatial thinking, another 45% uses both visual/spatial thinking and thinking in the form of words, and 25% thinks exclusively in words. According to Kreger Silverman, of the 30% of the general population who use visual/spatial thinking, only a small percentage would use this style over and above all other forms of thinking and can be said to be true "picture thinkers".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_thinking‍ (Accessed, ‍16/04/2016).

Date: Jan- April, 2016. Copyright Katie Alleva. All rights reserved.

Medium: Collage, Cyanotypes made from imagery from ‘The Complete Encyclopedia of Illustration by J.G.HECK, collograph prints, relief prints made from antique French school education rubber plates, etching and Lefranc Bourgeois Flashe paint. high-quality cotton print papers adhered with archival spray and varnished. The back and sides have been sealed to protect from moisture.

Size: 30 cm-diameter round birch boards. Ready to hang with a D-Clip on the back. The back of the artwork is sealed and painted with Gesso.

This is an original artwork signed and year-dated by the artist. This work is part of a series of 9 works. Series 2 of 9.