What did my art reveal? It brought to light a hidden truth—a mistaken cultural bias about history. I realized the halo effect was being used to maintain this cultural dominance.
It’s a phenomenon where our initial positive impressions color our later judgments and blind us to the full picture. As a result, overlooking important details distorts the truth, and rushing to conclusions. This effect is a glow that makes us see a situation in an even better light than is warranted.
Writing Sacred Blood made me see that I had been quietly pushing back against the idea that our social, political, and economic systems are just the way things are and can't be changed. It also helped me notice how this belief makes it seem like these systems work for everyone, when really, they are set up to benefit those in power the most.
However, unlike Rorschach, who focused on mental disorders, the brothers were committed to sculpture's transformative potential and aimed to evoke the Eureka effect, or sudden insight, in their viewers.
Such an epiphany was considered essential for uniting advanced science and technology, social evolution, and spirituality within the context of modernity.
It is interesting that, in writing this section,, I discovered the background of my first college poster. When purchased, it had just been rendered in color for the first time.