Fragmentation, fractured awareness, spatial and temporal dislocation, sub-textual meaning, and the idea of word and image propagating as viral constructs have provoked debate for a century or more.
That these concepts are influential in cultural consciousness is beyond doubt, particularly in the arts. Setting aside the often trivial disputes associated with analysis of these cultural and social phenomena, there is much aesthetic pleasure to be found in the happenstance encounter with surprising justapositions of sensory imagery, particularly those sounds and images which are often ignored as unintentional or as mere by-products of the environment.
The interested observer might consider this an opportunity for an artist to be less obtrusive in the creation of works of art. Not absent, certainly, but mindful of the nature of the inspiration.
That these concepts are influential in cultural consciousness is beyond doubt, particularly in the arts. Setting aside the often trivial disputes associated with analysis of these cultural and social phenomena, there is much aesthetic pleasure to be found in the happenstance encounter with surprising justapositions of sensory imagery, particularly those sounds and images which are often ignored as unintentional or as mere by-products of the environment.
The interested observer might consider this an opportunity for an artist to be less obtrusive in the creation of works of art. Not absent, certainly, but mindful of the nature of the inspiration.
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