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Thoughts, Feelings, Experiences. Images & Words.

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Thinking about my artistic process in relation to these two things...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Theory

Fashion Review on Instinct

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Conduit Metaphors

Conduit Metaphors

Because language can be subjective and arbitrary, and because words cannot always describe our feelings best, individuals often utilize conduit metaphors to address feelings, thoughts, ideas. These metaphors are generally empty words that the speaker assigns meaning to while the listener decodes their true intentions. 

Some selected quotes from the wikipage:

Michael J. Reddy, PhD, his discovery of this conceptual metaphor refocused debate within and outside the linguistic community on the importance of metaphorical language.[1]

Reddy collected and studied examples of how English speakers talk about success or failure in communication. The overwhelming majority of what he calls core expressions involved dead metaphors selected from speakers' internal thoughts and feelings. Speakers then "put these thoughts into words" and listeners "take them out of the words." Since words are actually marks or sounds and do not literally have "insides," people talk about language largely in terms of metaphor.

Most English core expressions used in talking about communication assert that actual thoughts and feelings pass back and forth between people through the conduit of words. These core expressions and the few that do not qualify as conduit metaphors are listed in the paper's extensive appendix,[13] which itself has been cited by Andrew Ortony as "a major piece of work, providing linguistics with an unusual corpus, as well as substantiating Reddy's claims about the pervasiveness of the root metaphor."[14]

These core expressions assert that words contain or do not contain mental content, depending on the success or failure of the insertion process.

Reddy concludes that the conduit metaphor may continue to have negative technological and social consequences: mass communications systems that largely ignore the internal, human systems responsible for the majority of the work in communicating. Because the logical framework of the conduit metaphor indicates people think in terms of "capturing ideas in words"—despite there being no ideas "within" the ever-increasing stream of words—a burgeoning public may be less culturally informed than expected.

Emotional Intelligence for Children - NYT article

"emotional literacy as 'the missing piece' in American education."

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Thoughts on Form, Symbols, and Communication

"In language at least, the form of the signifier is not determined by what it signifies: there is nothing 'treeish' about the word 'tree'. Languages differ, of course, in how they refer to the same referent. No specific signifier is 'naturally' more suited to a signified than any other signifier; in principle any signifier could represent any signified. Saussure observed that 'there is nothing at all to prevent the association of any idea whatsoever with any sequence of sounds whatsoever' (Saussure 1983, 76; Saussure 1974, 76); 'the process which selects one particular sound-sequence to correspond to one particular idea is completely arbitrary' (Saussure 1983, 111; Saussure 1974, 113)." (Daniel Chandler: http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem02.html) 

These writings I believe are true in the way things in the world appear. The meaning we derive from the form of objects can be arbitrary. There are reasons for the associations we create, however, these connections can often be random results of the physical conditions that fell into place (such as evolutionary development of humans to have two eyes, or the idea that babies are cute). And the human interpretation of meaning is inherently personal and subjective. Since we cannot control personal meaning through the transmission of visual communication, it proves that associations made in connection to these images (given little conditioning to them) is unpredictable and the type of response we will receive in another human being.

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One Year American empty gelatin 00 capsules, 100 dollar bills, MDF, steel, acrylic, UV glass 30cm x 30cm x 3cm 2011

“In this piece, I folded 270 one hundred dollar bills to fit into 270 empty gelatin 00 capsules. This piece contains $27 000; the annual income of an average American in 2011.” -Xiangshen Jason Guo. Learn more about the artist HERE.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/46513356@N08/sets/

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Foxxxxy Lady

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Punk

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shifting desires within abstract painting

"I came to mistrust my desire to explode the picture and supercharge it in some way. At one time the common device of using the super emotional to get "in gear" with a painting used to serve me for access to painting, but I mistrust that now. I think what is more important is a feeling of strength in reserve - tensions beneath calm." - 

Richard Diebenkorn

http://pakandanna.blogspot.com/2009/10/richard-diebenkorn.html

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The Three Caballeros - You Belong to My Heart

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video is corny, but listen to the song. captures the mood spot on

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Jackson Pollock by Hans Namuth

writing an art history paper on subjectivity in art through different modes of representation and how it this evolved over time. this video was definitely of interest to me