Sunday, August 25, 2013
If any of this made any sense
...I wouldn't be doing it. Nine hundred sixty nine thousand four hundred more faces before I retire.
Saturday, August 24, 2013
In other words
I'm not 'saying' anything with these. They are collections of lines that evoke one set of pictures, faces, emotions and history I have experienced to me and a completely different set to you. What kind of communication is that?
Um, come to think of it, that's the normal kind. No matter how precise we try to be, nobody understands your output like you intend it. That's why we have courts deciding what some extremely painstakingly drawn up bit of text might be trying to communicate...
Thursday, August 22, 2013
My message
Do I have a message? Sure. Anything you can read into these pictures is what I'm saying. Yes, it's a much more imprecise mode of communication than plain prose and limited by your education and willingness to enter into the reading, but that applies to all culture. I knew a guy once who called Plato's dialogues "boring." Not Plato's fault, one might say after two thousand years of continuous scholarly discussion of his work...
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