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huh--i wasn't taking anything about the image as true-to-life---i don't even see photographs that way--simply because the map is not the territory.
i just relied on the organization of the image and will's prompt in the op.
representational art is mostly about how the image is organized, then its about patterns of resonance that are set up via the imagery, which are in a sense made hierarchical in a way that is specific to the image through its organization.
there are tons of ways to read the image--i'm not a fan of it (but it's technically kinda cool)....at any rate, that's why i read it as i did.
that and if anything, in the world of utopian imagery, its dystopian. which is a good word.
btw:
most visual art forms of dada simply worked off the assumption that art is what an artist (who is someone who occupies that social position) says it is--so by extension what appears in a particular social space that defines it as art is art--so by extension the definition of art is socially situational--so there's no "essence' that distinguishes art from non-art--so "art" is an arbitrary category, its meanings entirely social.
this is very different from "pure subjective interpretation"--which generally takes the socially situated as given, as data, and reads it from there. so you're subjective interpretation of a piece would be shaped fundamentally by its appearing in a way that defined it as "art"--not the same, not the same.
baraka guru: our posts crossed and that nice word dystopia appears in both of them...
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