civilized ku # 195 ~ a helicopter is not a milk cow and that's a fact.

Crown Point ruins • click to embiggenIt seems that "j" (no name, no links) needs to insist that:

Your artistic vision is no more or less an interpretation of reality than the over amped color of the flikr-stazi. But interpretation of reality it is.

OK, fine - you see what you wanna see and you hear what you wanna hear. It is always my picturing intention that the viewers of my pictures be free to do just that. To that end, I try to represent the referent in my pictures in as "real", as natural, as true to what I see as the medium will allow.

By way of further clarification (and without wanting to be unduly pedantic), let me point out Mr. Webster's thoughts on the ideas of representation - a likeness ... a description, and interpretation - the act or result of giving an explanation of something.

I am much more interested in describing what I see as opposed to explaining it.

And, in as much as I believe that representing and interpreting are 2 distinctly different concepts / acts, I also believe that picturing within the constraints of 1 of those ideas or the other are 2 distinctly different concepts / acts. The mindsets for each are distinctly different, the intents for each are distinctly different, and, not surprisingly, the resultant pictures for each are distinctly different.

As I once read, a helicopter is not a milk cow and that's a fact.

Comments

[Frank]

Mark

The first thing I notice in this picture is that the stonework to the right of the door exhibits 'lime weeping' whereas the stonework to the left does not, indicating a later construction - maybe recent. Reconstruting ruins is a dubious practice - so much conjecture involved. I don't know if that is what I was meant to see but it the first thing I saw.