Making Sense of It

 

We learn our lessons differently.

Wouldn’t you say? Some are

book-read smart, others absorb

the teacher’s words. Others still

learn first-hand through experience.

The best way, I suppose, is being

able to utilizing all three.

I happen to have ADD and I’m

fairly sure have a mild case of

dyslexia as well. I seem to skip

lines in literature and have to

re-read certain sentences over

again in order to comprehend

what is being said.

I have always preferred pictures

over words. When I was a child,

I would first look at the pictures

of comic strips in the newspaper

in order to capture the idea. And

to this day I always follow the

diagram in the instructions of

“How to” when assembling a

store-bought piece.

Perhaps this is why I have always

excelled in drawing, painting and

sculpture. It’s a visual thing.

My love of photography is fittingly

appropriate for me as well. Cartoon-

ing especially gives me the oppor-

tunity to express myself humorously

or sarcastically. That genre allows

me to optically illustrate how I see

things through my uniquely twisted

perspective.

I believe, sans words, my photo-

graphs (open to viewer interpre-

tation) visually speak for them-

selves.

Funny thing is, I find it easier to

write words than to read them.

I suppose that is because I have

an idea of what I’d like to com-

municate. We all have our pre-

ferences for learning; teaching,

now that’s a whole different thing.

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Chris Hanch 11-23-2022