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This man relies on a pair of oversized but broken glasses, placing them before his eyes: a barrier that he mistakes for a vision tool. He does not see
4288 El Sobreestructurado
This man relies on a pair of oversized but broken glasses, placing them before his eyes: a barrier that he mistakes for a vision tool. He does not seek to repair the lenses, but rather for external solutions (the guide dog, larger glasses). It is the perfect metaphor for a society that, faced with the failure of its own interpretive paradigms, instead of questioning them, seeks to strengthen or extend tools that have already proven not to work. The use of the guide dog underscores this delegation: the man entrusts his movement to another living being, implicitly admitting that he can no longer navigate reality autonomously. He relies on the 'sense' of another because he has ceased to trust or be able to use his own capacity for discernment, distorted by the shattered lenses. The tragedy is not the darkness, but the conviction of seeing through a tool. The broken lenses create a fragmented, distorted vision that the man accepts as reality. In this perspective, the image becomes a radical critique of the inability to discard the mental, ideological, or technological 'filters' that separate us from the world. The man is not blind because he lacks eyes; he is blind because he is in love with his own distortion.
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