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. The ways that we image the world . We embody images, eschew images, suffer with them and without them.
Some images are more mythic than others.
Images push us toward and pull us away from provincial ideas and practices. They ground us in conventions and allow us to push away from them. They can impoverish us and prompt us to reach beyond everyday routine, practices, and roles. Some images entangle us in conformity, others infuse our work with a high sense of purpose and communal ideals. Legal scholars too know the power of images.