A Family Retrospective: 6 Ways of Seeing

A FAMILY RETROSPECTIVE: SIX WAYS OF SEEING One family’s ways to understand the world through art Jeani Eismont, a mother, watercolors Melo Porter, a daughter, painting Jordan Eismont, a son, painting Ezra Eismont, a son, painting Issa Eismont, a son, sculpture Rostislav Eismont, the curator and father, painting “Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. “But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world;…” From John Berger’s “Ways of Seeing”