- The relationship between ‘things’ and ‘meaning’
- Prehensile (capable of grasping) vision
- Contemplation and tactile (of or relating to sense or touch) contemplation
- The difference between (active) ‘involvement’ and (passive) ‘observation’
- Does physical shape have precedence over contextual meaning – which comes first?
- Does ‘shape of behaviour’ affect meaning?
THE MEANING OF A WORD IS ITS USE!
***EXAMPLE John Stezaker, Shadow (2008)
how the mind will automatically look for patterns in/between images
Mask CII, John Stezaker, 2011
‘Mask XIII’, John Stezaker, 1978-9
‘Mask XIV’, John Stezaker, 2006
Questions:
- What is the relation between the ‘physical shape’ of an artefact, or act, and the meaning it has?
- What is the difference between something appearing in the ‘everyday context’ and in it appearing ‘isolated’ from context, when we are merely observing it?
- What comes first – physical shape or contextual meaning?
- What is the relation between the ‘shape of behaviour’ and ‘meaning’?
- What is the nature of the context in which things appear, and where does it arise?