Evidence » course: visual culture

some one should really title this thing, and also tell who posted this. please?

this is a really interesting sequence of images
perhaps people could (speculate) decode this narrative
or even anti-narrative
how might the value/meaning of an individual change as affected by the group?
juxtiposition/isolation
there's a lot to talk about, i think
but...

who posted this?
REMEMBER to sign your posts
it is crucial for the class credit
and helps our discussions

i am so compelled by the trailer of ribs

brian and i were posting at the same time
the title issue is quite interesting
how will our interpretation of this image change when a title is given by the author

The woman and the skeleton reminds me of a story I read for english, "A Rose for Emily". The woman killed her so called lover and slept with him every night for 40 years. She was lonely, and she felt like she could not let go of the only person that meant so much to her. This picture is a disguisting picture, but if you look at it a little longer it makes you feel sorry for this twisted woman.

I guess when I saw these, I didn't think of them as a sequence since I got a different impression from each.
And the woman...well, I don't really see her as twisted. Maybe it's just me. I got the impression that the skeleton symbolizes how she sees herself. Or it could be that she's lamenting the loss of someone who meant a great deal to her.
The final picture just hit me as a "horrors of war" image, and reminded me how little most people in this country care about attacking other countries, since we don't see the casualties up close.

The trailer of ribs is a good one. So fresh and, well, interior-seeming just sitting there. I hear them rattle as the biker hits the pavement and pedals away.

I am also reminde of a corny Clive Barker header for his Books of Blood, "We are all books of blood. Wherever we are opened we are red." Or something like that.

Im not sure I read them as a sequence either.. more like an ATLAS scheme of directed research.. a meditation on the physical body and live/undead. The skeleton seems posed, the man on the beach in this context allows me see right through his skin and imagine his bones. The woman reclining merges the two worlds.

The ribs provide a matter of factness to the "abstraction" of death in our minds... and in our futures. What's the great title to that Damian Hirst sculpture of the floating shark? "The impossibility of death in the mind of someone living..."??

in terms of thinking of sequence of imagery
i suppose i chose the wrong word
i am thinking of them as a group, a series
i guess the question is whether or not there is an order
because the first and last contain no bones
i think of them as framing images
and also i am making connections in a linear fashion
so i think i'm back to sequence after all

The juxtaposition of these images in sequence does make an appeal to some connection between each, a story, or some larger meaning. It raises questions about the context in which an image is viewed. Do images take on their meaning by way of their setting? There is a skeleton motif in these images, to what extent does the grouping of these images contribute to a universal message in the symbol of the skeleton, or does the context of these images allow for each example of skeletons to take on a different meaning? Are we influenced in our interpretation of an artistic piece by way of the images we saw before it? If our viewing history does influence our perceptions of other artistic pieces, can we sufficiently evaluate the meaning of the artist?