Do we make pictures to show something funny and strange, or to look at it?

A line ライン:

Josiane Keller  ライン (2015)

Something cute, like small birds  小さい鳥 :

Josiane Keller  小さい鳥 (2015)

something unusually huge and gross クモ :

Josiane Keller  クモ (2015)

This is by the way a harmless yet very big spider, although this one is not even as big as they come, it’s unless I am totally wrong a Japanese huntsman spider. This one is palm size, but I had bigger in my toilet. (They seem to enjoy living near toilets, but they eat little bugs, which is great, as I hope they eat all my cockroaches. And: this one was in the public toilet in the park, not my home.)

Or do we make pictures because something looks interesting?

Another cicada 蝉 :

Josiane Keller  蝉 (2015)

Why show these pictures, and to whom? These pictures are banal, everyone has seen them before in only slight variations. They resemble a picture book for infants and toddlers, when a parent will sit with the baby and bond through picture showing. Some of them with early simple words, for teh ambitious parent that wishes to have a toddler that can read.

Are we asking questions? “Is this a bird?” “Is this a spider?”

Or are we sharing to connect? The image that I have seen at one point will be shown to a person at a different point, in time and location, perhaps. Is it better if we can look at it, although on different locations, at the same time?

I am here looking at a spider, but you are there, also looking at the spider I am looking at?

Are we bonding by looking at the same thing because we are in different locations?

Are we so disconnected from each other that we use picture sharing as a new form of bonding?

Is that the reason why the pictures have to be simple and easy to understand for a great mass of people, as it is important that we all understand, agree and so connect or re-connect?

We used to only pick lice out off our furs, now we share pictures.