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I would have to agree with Shayna S' comment that it can take "a certain trained mindset to truly unravel" all the meaning of visual images. I too, feel naturally inclined towards words, but this is partly an aspect of the exposure I have had to interpreting texts most of my conscious life. There is nothing about images (at least the more complex? ambiguous? ones) that results in immediate comprehension. In my art history class, I have been taught to interpret images on many levels ranging from the traditional Panofskyan method of formal analysis, iconographical interpretation, and iconological meaning, to all forms of criticism ranging from feminist, Freudian, and Marxist…The ways of interpreting images are indeed as varied and often conflicted as that of words. Both have the potential to open up generative and inconclusive dialogue.