What happens when I take my glasses off What happens when I take my glasses off? (Which is reality—glasses on or off?) What does a fishing pole look like when you put half of it in the water? What causes a rainbow to form?

Reflect & refract images Clarify images Magnify images Add color to WHAT PRISMS DO: Reflect & refract images Clarify images Magnify images Add color to images Redistribute light

Reflecting reality one degree (pixel) at a time. GEORGES SEURAT Reflecting reality one degree (pixel) at a time.

Points of color reveal the big picture.

Why didn’t Seurat get an accurate photographic picture made of himself rather than paint his “fuzzy” self-portrait? Why didn’t he simply photograph the Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grand Jatte? (He painted the jetty the way it made him feel, not the way it literally looked.) Why did he wear a beard? (Some cultures are so subtle, they are practically hidden) What Dutch artist was the supreme painter of pictures that mirrored his subjective inner reality rather than external “reality”?

You don’t really know your own home culture if you’ve never stepped out of it for a significant period of time. If you experience a culture strictly as a tourist, you don’t know much about it. The only way to really understand a culture is to live and work in it. The best way to understand a culture is to APPRECIATE it--& this requires opening your subjective PRISM You learn about cultures one experience (jigsaw puzzle piece) at a time until you “become” that culture.

The #1 challenge of this course is seeing other cultures with their glasses on.

Perspective (4th step) Reflection (3rd step) Insights (1st step) Significance (2nd step) Meaning (5th step)

All learning is self-teaching. No one can make you learn but yourself All learning is self-teaching. No one can make you learn but yourself. You can’t learn until you’re ready to learn. “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” You won’t engage in self-teaching (learning) unless you are interested in the subject. When you’re not interested, you shut your PRISM (openness to reality). Class can’t force you to open your PRISM when you don’t want to.

Only YOU can open your PRISM

My main job is to “tell the truth” through the lenses of multiple PRISMs.