Surfing Kanagawa: The Evolutionary Art of Religious Expression
Surfing Kanagawa: The Evolutionary Art of Religious Expression J.M. Rogers . . . Art is often considered to be the greatest endeavor of humanity. It stands apart from the concepts of survival and species propagation, existing as a purely human enterprise, an enterprise that seeks to express the indescribable by way of relatable imagery. Due to the physical nature of human beings, our ability to understand visual information is incredibly high. No doubt, this tendency toward visual learning was largely due to the evolution of the human eye and its ability to perceive variations in the hue of light. This evolution of sight was key in human beings' survival who utilized the distinction in color and shape to discern edible fruits and their corresponding visual features. Such utilization of color and shape produced the ability to discern incredibly subtle deviations in patterns, which enabled the innovation of highly varied symbols that can convey complex sets of physica...