coffee cup, sketch book and more charcoal on cardboard.

The blog that this refers back to is this one. It discusses the naming of paintings. It discusses what happens to a picture/painting when placed under a specific or new subject heading. New meaning can be found in both subject matter and style.

There is an advantage of working on series or suites. It allows ideas to open up and branch into new and alternative ideology by virtue of exploration and whose weight is magnified by simply adding a heading.I choose to believe that there is, in any series, a multitude of ideas that can be exposed. These ideas can be complimentary to each other and their super topic as well is contrasting. Either of these options are good things. A painting of a rabbit is a painting of a rabbit. Label a rabbit painting Renaissance and fertility and it can now reflect a whole other set of meanings. Now add 99 more rabbit painting and the whole shebangs becomes deeper, if not three dimensional, in its concept structure.

I have in the past and in the aforementioned post brought up the topic of bull sh**ting a possibly innate character to art critique and discussion. I think that this does not have to be the case. It is possible to earnestly present an intention or suggest a viewpoint that can actually be a good and useful discussion. Strangely this said same sincerity need not be on the part of the artist. It would be convenient if the intent and motivation were aligned with whatever post production life a piece(s) may take on. I would wager that this is more often not the case.

I do think though that at some point any producer of images desires to add (additional) meaning to his or her work. This may be as mundane as making a nude be more erotic. The real question is how much of the burden lies on the producer/artist? There are plenty of examples of work being "found" and contextualized into a different and perhaps more meaningful thing. It would be great to exist in a critical and thinking community that would allow a transparency of intention. However, from what i hear going on around me in the world at large substantive conversation and dialogue is not so easily found nor perhaps not even desired. Maybe I ask too much.

Don't get me wrong, I do not think that interacting shouldn't be fun, simple or just casual. Quite the contrary, I fully appreciate the value of relaxing, unwinding or having no pressure to do or be anything. This does not mean that there should be no alternative or that the alternative is the rare exception. To paraphrase Socrates, unexamined art is not worth (your word here).
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