People are now instinctively lured into the mystic power that lies in the nonverbal. What we once called verbal communication has died and given birth to a culture in which we speak nonverbally. From a distance, the barrel and the human figure appear to be the same. Upon close inquiry, the barrel and the human figure assume different qualities that form a unique expression. The nature of the object evolves and changes as the viewer approaches more closely, and ultimately, symbolic interaction forms.
Symbols become entities within themselves.
The human being becomes a symbol. The object becomes valued, instead of the word and what it once conveyed. Thus more meaning is derived from the physical appearance of objects because they are perceived from a modern frame of mind which is solely guided by the eye. The concept of reality is based on a visual construction. The symbolic view of things is a consequence of a long absorption in images.