Charris´s Figurative Paintings have always engaged my mind and tickeld my imagination. On glancing at his canvases I always find myself fascinated by shapes and colors, hint of histories, shades of sooner familiar long from life and art. I would compare his paintings with a process of choosing, reckoning, relating, persuading and visually informing by using his power of imagination.
Analogy, if we circle back to look beyond its roots, long figured in cultural endevours yet also provoked controversy. It was shunted aside by rationalist ideology, only recently to be redeemed to play a basic role in the core cognitive process describe as conceptual blending by Guiller Fauconnier and Mark Turner.[The Way we think: Conceptual Blending and the mind´s hidding Complexities, 2002]. In their view, analogy figures among the vital functions by which our minds operate in cognition, which is our shared activity of making sense of to each other and the world. [p.101]:basic notions that we employ, most often unconsciously such as change, Identity, Time, Space, cause-effect, Part-whole, Representation (Metaphor), Role, Analogy (likeness), dis analogy (hybrid), Property (Nearness-vicinity-owner), Similarity (one-like-like-ness), Cathe gory (Gender), Uniqueness (oneness).
Analogy emerges as a core of cognition itself and analogy at its very core is Visual. Douglas Hofsater, a paladin of cognitive studies assessed this in a presidential lecture at Stanford .(2006)
