ABSTRACT
There are close connections, Ralph Waldo Emerson noted, among images seen, imagined, and communicated. With our mind’s eye, we translate objects to conform to our sense of reality. Yet we cannot possess images totally; they have as well a life of their own. Images are deeply and historically rooted in ‘parallel facts’ that ultimately predate and transcend our perceptions. That images have past and future representations accentuates our present-day sense of their historical qualities.
