"How else can one write but of those things which one doesn't know, or knows badly? It is precisely there that we imagine having something to say. We write only at the frontiers of our knowledge, at the borders which separate our knowledge from our ignorance and transforms one into the other."
-Deleuze
response:
In my opinion, Deleuze is talking about how any artist can imagine what they want their work to be and create it. But have they truly experienced something that connects themselves with their work? For example, my decision to show my map assignment as a web with strings and wood was more of an appearance decision than a connection it had with me. This is what I must work on. I have to act as a scientist and experiment with my ideas instead of only imagining them. When an artist can take this step, they have passed the border between knowledge and ignorance.
BLOG RESPONSE #2
Often we talk of the "style" of some one's work rather than the content (the thing we are viewing and how what we are viewing in presented to us). So, for example, the choice to shoot in black & white vs. color, the use of a deep shadow, distressing an image, or even shooting from a particular angle is often used as a "style" to make a picture look "good" rather than helping us understand more deeply what we are looking at. That said, respond to quote below from film maker Jean Luc Goddard. What does Goddard mean that style and content "can't be separated".
"To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body. Both go together, they can't be separated."
Often we talk of the "style" of some one's work rather than the content (the thing we are viewing and how what we are viewing in presented to us). So, for example, the choice to shoot in black & white vs. color, the use of a deep shadow, distressing an image, or even shooting from a particular angle is often used as a "style" to make a picture look "good" rather than helping us understand more deeply what we are looking at. That said, respond to quote below from film maker Jean Luc Goddard. What does Goddard mean that style and content "can't be separated".
"To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body. Both go together, they can't be separated."
Jean Luc Goddard
response:
Goddard is talking about the link between content and style. Without content there is no style, and without style there is no content. Through each of these styles, the other shines.I shot my cats in black and white because this went well with my concept of a mysterious society that inhabits the parking lot behind krauzers. You cannot show your sense of style without feeling some sort of emotion which also affects the content of your work.
