Cartoon
If you draw a caricature (and this relates to the last post), does it contain anything of substance? Is it just lines on a page? An ink blot, for example, really is just a random smearing of ink...yet we see shapes. We see bats and abuse, people and sheep. So if randomness can result in form, what about a consciously drawn image? How much more can we find in that?
Or, to be more specific:
posted by Samwick @ 10:17 AM
4 Comments:
At 10:39 AM,
Impulsivecompulsive said…
Wow. That's deeply disturbing. Man, someone drew that. What the hell is going through their mind while they're making it?
At 11:00 AM,
Samwick said…
Yeah, the little baby picture is an old cartoon from the late 1800's, back when blackface shows were in style. Horrible stuff.
At 5:38 PM,
Sheryl said…
It's funny you should bring this subject up. A friend of mine were having this very debate recently.
Our debate was on whether an image is a form of reality . The debate has gone all over the place actually, but part of it is whether there is truth in something when you copy it because you are drawing the elements as a filtered version of an actual thing. The debate is much more complicated than that and I am not saying that well, but it is a similar question.
At 4:02 PM,
Samwick said…
My belief is that there is no actual "thing". There is no original object. When humans see, humans create. It's all fabrication, we are just very good at pretending to read the same script. It's all simulacra and at some point the sun is going to expand and wipe us the fuck out, finally...FINALLY...ending our painfully dismal species. I don't think we worked out very well, as a species, as a planet and I eagerly await our sun death...in about 9 billion years from now.
I'm a patient guy.
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