Experiments · Conscious Selection

Seven questions, one painting

Yarbus’s experiment on Repin’s “They Did Not Expect Him”, with a cursor in place of the suction cap on the eye. Ask yourself a question, look for twenty seconds, then take another and lay the paths over each other. Nothing is sent anywhere.

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Conscious Selection · Chapter 1

They Did Not Expect Him

In 1884 Ilya Repin showed the public a painting in which absolutely nothing happens: a room, light from a window, a laid table in the background, worn wallpaper, and in the doorway a thin man in borrowed clothes who has just come in from the…

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