Everyday role routines are linked to images that we translate into an ethic that becomes associated with an ethos. Our practices and routines nourish some images while staying away from others. Some images drive us, some are driven underground. The physician who sees twenty five patients a day may have difficulty imagining herself a healer. The necessity of work and life seizes us through images.
Images have a life of their own.
They come on their own, stay as long as they choose, and leave without warning. Images instruct, warn, seduce, confuse, and liberate. Images portray a universe of social relations, an ethos, an ethic, and ultimately, a way of life. It is the silent way of our images that conceals the working of myth. The images we create in turn create us.