What is a visual Epistemology?

In an image we read everything all at once text is liniar.one foot in front of the other . When working from an art and design visual context the tradition methods can steer students away from their practice as was the case for many years in the UK.
The visual epistemology helps present embedded knowledge inherent in the artifacts. It creates a body of visual knowledge which is understood by those who have sufficient expertise to read the works, via semiotics for example. It uses the visual language of the Artist and Designer to explore the ineffable of practice led doctorates.
As a tool The Visual Epistemology assists in establishing the early stages of the field of study. Most of all it sets the scope of the research with Visual dominance, as apposed to the tradition of a textual dominant thesis.
It is a visual reservoir of influences and inspiration , intension , interpretation referencing historic and contemporary practices. In its early stage it is , to a greater extent an intuitive collection of images and artifacts that hold a key to the contribution.
The process involves reflection and categorization and harsh editing. This requires guidance by DOS or supervisor via simple questions reflecting back the assertions of the research , and in the main asking Why? This process has often been a valuable method to establish questions the title, and in some cases the student , having found the the gap in knowledge can identify the contribution.