Seeing is concentration. Focussing.
Seeing is being open, for whatever curiosity there might be about an artwork. The curiosity can be about the content, about what is represented; how it is represented (or not). It can be about the material; which material is used (or not); which materials are possibly combined. It can be about ‘faults’, incongruencies, fissures; they might tell about the work’s history or process of creation.
Seeing is looking for exactly these things.
Seeing is the opposite of judging. It is independent of it, comes before and might lead to a judgement, but not necessarily. Seeing is, thus, the necessary premise for judging, because only who first – openly – sees is allowed to judge.
Seeing is entering into an intimate dialogue with the work on its different levels. On even levels.
Then, Seeing is revelation. And a starting point for reflection.