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metamage [2014-06-17 19:42:18 +0000 UTC]

Did you help the tramp . . . ? What a comment. Honestly. Yes. You helped the tramp. You recognized his beauty. You gave him a place to sit in comfort and to be honored by a real live goddamned ARTIST . . . and you honored him by capturing him at a precise moment in time that can never be recaptured; the moment of a wise old soul in contemplation of the strangeness of his world. God, yes.

I also wanted to mention . . . are you familiar with Carl Jung's work and the four psychological types - thinking, feeling, intuition and sensing? Very simply, postulated we were a mixture of these four with one in ascension at all times and the remaining three in support, but mostly undeveloped. As we move through our lives we are pulled to our 'opposite function' which we use to bring fullness to our lives . . . 

THE FOUR BASIC TYPES

Sensation

Sensation refers to our immediate experience of the objective world, a process that takes place without any kind of evaluation of the experience. Sensation perceives objects as they are - realistically and concretely. It fails to consider context, implications, meanings or alternative interpretations, but instead attempts to represent factually and in detail the information that is available to the senses.

Intuition refers to a deeper perception of inherent possibilities and inner meanings. Intuitive perception ignores the details and focuses instead upon the general context or atmosphere. It perceives (without clear evidence or proof) the direction in which things are moving, the subtle inner relationships and underlying processes involved, or the latent potentialities of a situation. Intuition never directly reflects reality but actively, creatively, insightfully and imaginatively adds meaning by reading things into the situation that are not immediately apparent to a purely objective observer.

Thinking is a mode of evaluation that is concerned with the truth or falsity of experience. It is based upon the intellectual comprehension of things and, in particular, of their conceptual interrelationships. It is a rational, systematic process that seeks to understand reality through analysis and logical inference.

Feeling is an affective, sentimental function. It involves judging the value of things or having an opinion about them on the basis of our likes and dislikes. Experiences are therefore evaluated in terms of good and bad, pleasant or unpleasant, acceptable or unacceptable.

This gets much more complicated obviously. At some point you may want to take this test - The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator - should be available on line by now. It is fascinating.

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator ® (Myers and McCaulley, 1985) is the most widely used measure of Jungian psychological type. The MBTI is a self-report questionnaire that assesses type preferences on Extraversion-Introversion (E-I), Sensation-Intuition (S-N), Thinking-Feeling (T-F), and also on Judgment-Perception (J-P). The J-P scale defines the person's preferred manner of dealing with the outer world. Judging reflects a closed, organised, decisive approach, whereas Perceiving is more open, flexible and curious. J-P is not specifically recognised as a separate dimension in Jung's theory, and it is included in the MBTI mainly as a way of indirectly determining which function is dominant.

MBTI types are described using four letters indicating preferences on each scale. This results in sixteen types. These types, and their classical Jungian equivalents, are shown in the table below. In the Jung types, the function in brackets is the auxiliary. Thus IS(T) refers to an Introverted Sensory Thinker with Sensation dominant, whereas IT(S) is the same type, but with Thinking dominant.

Descriptions of the MBTI types may be found at
MBTI Personality Profiles

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metamage [2014-06-17 18:12:53 +0000 UTC]

BEAUTIFUL. You captured the fragility of this elder with compassion, yet his indominitable will shows through. Through your drawing he is a beautiful man.

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hibaalmasri [2014-06-17 14:46:37 +0000 UTC]

The shadow on his face, hand, and under him look as if it was temporarily playing on him..very interesting.  

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Scbe [2014-06-17 12:15:35 +0000 UTC]

did you help the tramp?
but very cool.

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