Abstract

Imagination, aesthetic perception, and the allusionary function of the visual are fundamental to our everyday life experiences. The associative qualities of visual aesthetics particularly, give them interpretive possibilities which enable us to dynamically engage with external environments on multiple semiotic levels. Visual imagery provides a critical link to making sense of the unfamiliar and to extending association to others, therefore providing practical processes to facilitate shared meaning. These fundamental attributes of visual media can provide enormous scope for creative innovation across cultures. Using theories of creativity and cultural semiotics this paper will provide the reader with ideas-spaces where various visual artefacts will be momentarily placed as a way of reaching across time and cultures to interact with our imagination and to provide for possibilities of new intercultural connections and understandings.