Comments on: Does a picture paint a thousand words?

By: E-learning & Digital Cultures » Block 1: week-by-week summary (retrospective)

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:42:42 +0000

[...] 2 began with one of my early reflections on visuality with a blog post on the polysemous nature of the visual image. I enjoyed writing it – and name checking artists I enjoy – and the comments of Sian [...]

By: sian

sian — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:34:22 +0000

There’s some kind of hint of bestiality going on there too, I think, in the way the cat’s posture gestures towards the bipedal and the human. Is the cat the father, a kind of warped and somehow wrong symbol of domesticity? It also looks like it’s hiding, peering out on the mob? Is the whole painting a creepy reinterpretation of Puss in Boots?

Anyway, a point well made!

By: tracy

tracy — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:30:14 +0000

Boot made me think of Plath’s “Daddy”

http://www.internal.org/view_poem.phtml?poemID=356