Abstract:

Imagery beyond images (IbIs) evolves from the infusion of subjective affect into object or event images in aesthetic activities, during the process of which the subject perceives  object and event images in the form of imagination-ignited aesthetic experience. IbIs results from the subject's contemplation on physical images and therefore constitutes a creation out of the empty and an expansion of time and space. IbIs depends on transforms physical images. It shows itself as a symbiosis of emptiness and haveness and even goes beyond imagery per se to the extent of pointing to infinity. As IbIs is built on the subject's aesthetic experience, it influences the subject's perception of object and event images and contributes to the similitude in the representation of physical images. IbIs holdss rich expressivity in its free form. Artistic idea-imagery includes both perceptible physical images and the artist's imaginary IbIs, based on which the recipients may engender their own IbIs through imagination. Artists' creation relies on IbIs as a means to enhance imagery's communicative power, allowing space for re-creation.

Key words: imagery beyond images (IbIs), imagination, infusion of the unreal and the real, transcendental similitude, imagery actualized through the mind