The term “image” in literature is employed in a rich variety of ways that blur the lines between the tangible and the conceptual. It can denote an elemental representation of thought or existence, as when it is portrayed as a primitive construct predating language itself [1]. At the same time, authors often use it to signify physical embodiments—whether a sacred figure rendered in art or a crafted idol meant to convey divine presence [2],[3]—or to evoke the mental and emotional imprints that linger in our memory, suggesting that our inner life is painted with impressions as vivid as any portrait [4],[5]. In philosophical and aesthetic discourse, “image” further becomes a metaphor for the resemblance between the parts and the whole, or even for the moral and psychological likeness to a higher ideal [6],[7].