Wednesday 8 April 2009

A thought........or two...


When reading certain artist's text or words, particularly words that are not objects, how do people see these words in their mind? What image or picture do you have? Is it just the word itself? What colour? Or what type of text is it in?
Particularly when reading theory or philosophy, how is it portrayed in your head with certain words?, What about words you don't know the meaning of?
The same type of questions could be asked of Numbers, Days, Months or Seasons for that matter.


To me the way certain objects work interest me, some I still find confusing but intriguing, for example the not so common (nowadays) cassette tape. How is the process pictured in your head, how do we get music from that? Although the process has been told so many times and understood, it's still a baffling concept.

How do you picture noise in your head? How do you picture music? is it in colour?

1 comment:

  1. Are you familiar with the work of Kenneth Goldsmith. If you go to my blog, I wrote a fairly fun to read synopsis of his work. He uses words as art. This may enlighten some of the questions you pose here. Words for me, when they approach "art", are not so much pictorial as weighty in a physical sense; sensational, phenomenol.

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