What the Hell do these things mean? And what is it you are saying?
In an effort to share my ideas and ways of thinking, I have decided to follow with research that I have been doing in the making of my artwork, saving you all from the possible boredom of the research into the censorshhip and government abstractions of freedom pertaining to the interweb. Which, in itself, pertains to the broader aspects of my interest of the idea of ideals, cultural constructs and the interpretation and evolution of those ideas within symbols and objects.
I am interested in the meanings we attach to symbols, where those meanings come from, how they change, what they mean to us (society), them (culture) and to me (me). I find it extremely interestings that the same symbol or object has many differing interpretations in contemporary society, but I also find it interesting how those interpretations have developed and changed throughout time. As an artist, I am drawn towards art, and as a human, I am drawn towards understanding.
Earlier in the semester we had discussed semiotics, and the meanings that are formed in specific signifiers. Since I use objects to signify, I use the objects as symbols. And I will thus call them that. With more research into semiotics I may change my flavour, but that is now neither here nor there.
One of my current projects is an exploration into this symbology of the spiritual. Many items and objects have a contemporary meaning, an historical meaning or two or three and several contexual meanings, which often only loosely draw upon each other in conjunction with one another. They also have specific meanings to me, often times more than one. Originally in the conception of these images, I was investigating these symbols in my spiritual beliefs, finding a way to link these everyday objects into a spiritual and physical meaning of my own. In doing so I have found the interpretations of others valuable in linking them.
In each of the images there is a "main subject" of investigation for me. This main subject finds itself among tools and impliments that contain, divide, unite, deconstruct, interpret and investigate the meaning of itself. Leading to the idea that there are and can be various meanings of the main subject. Meanings that, as stated previously, can be found by using and researching various historical, contexual, cultural and societal meanings.
The images itself, being the investigation, and hence, being the "true main subject" must then also include these impliments and tools. It is also within these tools and implication that the complexity of the image starts to unfold and the story of my investigation can be read. For these tools and impliments also hold various symbolic meanings in the same way that the main subject of the image (not the image or "true main subject") does.
Confused yet?
It is just becoming clear to me.
I am interested in the meanings we attach to symbols, where those meanings come from, how they change, what they mean to us (society), them (culture) and to me (me). I find it extremely interestings that the same symbol or object has many differing interpretations in contemporary society, but I also find it interesting how those interpretations have developed and changed throughout time. As an artist, I am drawn towards art, and as a human, I am drawn towards understanding.
Earlier in the semester we had discussed semiotics, and the meanings that are formed in specific signifiers. Since I use objects to signify, I use the objects as symbols. And I will thus call them that. With more research into semiotics I may change my flavour, but that is now neither here nor there.
One of my current projects is an exploration into this symbology of the spiritual. Many items and objects have a contemporary meaning, an historical meaning or two or three and several contexual meanings, which often only loosely draw upon each other in conjunction with one another. They also have specific meanings to me, often times more than one. Originally in the conception of these images, I was investigating these symbols in my spiritual beliefs, finding a way to link these everyday objects into a spiritual and physical meaning of my own. In doing so I have found the interpretations of others valuable in linking them.
In each of the images there is a "main subject" of investigation for me. This main subject finds itself among tools and impliments that contain, divide, unite, deconstruct, interpret and investigate the meaning of itself. Leading to the idea that there are and can be various meanings of the main subject. Meanings that, as stated previously, can be found by using and researching various historical, contexual, cultural and societal meanings.
The images itself, being the investigation, and hence, being the "true main subject" must then also include these impliments and tools. It is also within these tools and implication that the complexity of the image starts to unfold and the story of my investigation can be read. For these tools and impliments also hold various symbolic meanings in the same way that the main subject of the image (not the image or "true main subject") does.
Confused yet?
It is just becoming clear to me.
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