Meaning
The Response: What is it? — Jessica
The joy of abstraction is in the discernment — the puzzling out of the form and meaning beyond the surface. I want to qualify surface but I can’t really think of the right one: tangible surface or visual surface? My thoughts are in a constant stage of vagueness. To clarify things would require time and energy or a healthy amount of inspiration from above.
I feel like a may have turned a small corner with the MEs. I was able to stage this photograph when I finally got what the “bright mode” was doing. I was able to set a background and then capture the lamp. It’s pretty close to what I had in my head which means that I can finally see a few possibilities and HOW to create them. There is a frustratingly small amount of ME how-to online. It’s just trial and error from this point out, isn’t it Cheryl?
But, back to my original thoughts. It’s the puzzling out of meaning that keeps me coming back to this artform. Our perceptions may all be fractured and fragmented, but there is an objectiveness to every image that begs for us to understand and find meaning. Often times without the artist even understanding fully.