The 'leap of the cat' and the mediation in art: possibilities of interaction

The humans have on different manifestations of language a way to understand themselves and the world they inhabit. The manifestations that involve art, specifically the visual arts, need the ability to see to be comprehended. However, seeing can be an inattentive action that does not help in the process of meaning production. This paper highlights the importance of an attentive look that overcomes the inattentiveness that nothing says about what is seen and reaches the attention to produce meaning. Based on a narrative from an image book, Pula, gato! (CASTANHA, 2008a), we discuss the experience with visual art and explain the regimes of interaction (GREIMAS, 2002; LANDOWSKI, 2009; 2010) that may pervade the mediated experience in the relation with objects of art.