Having read through Elena’s latest post it occurs to me that perhaps I’m not deconstructing at all… I’m just altering…
Deconstruct; 1. To subject to deconstruction.
2. To break (an idea or situation) down into its component parts.
Deconstruction; A method of critical analysis applied esp to literary texts, which, questioning the ability of language to represent reality adequately, asserts that no text can have a fixed and stable meaning, and that readers must eradicate all philosophical or other assumptions when approaching a text.
… change text for image…
… no fixed or stable meaning…!
Ok!
So how do I do that then?…
Meaning; 1. To have in mind as significant.
2. To intend, to purpose.
3. To destine, to design.
4. To signify.
No intention? No design? No purpose?… maybe I’m not just altering? Maybe the iPad and apps are the perfect tools?
“To break down into its component parts”? Pixel? Stitch? Pixellated?
Fixed; 1. Settled.
2. Fast, lasting, permanent.
3. Not varying or subject to alteration.
Am I aiming for something less than the original image? Elena asks this question. I want to know; what is less?
Taking the above definitions, this is not what I’m aiming for. I have no need to see Elena’s original image. The images (disembroidered or not) are original to me. Fragmented can’t be the way that I view them, as I have no prior knowledge of what they were. They are pixels… starting point’s… images… colours… drawings… irrelevant in my process (no offence Elena), yet critical to it. The moment I first alter them, they become mine…
Is this glib? It’s not meant that way… I am processing… writing on my computer… reading on my 1st iPad and researching on the 2nd… thoughts wash over me as I try and gather the relevant threads…
My work must be different to Elena’s… not copies… not re-makes… as she suggests… I too must return to that notion of the single pixel…
Must I?
Why?
That would make the work similar… come on, come on… think this through…
My work is about process and selection…
I like the image that when you look in a thesaurus there are no other words for pixel… it does what it says it does on the tin..! That’s kind of what I would like my work to be about… obvious, yet…
…unique springs to mind… but that’s not it… that’s arrogant…
Singular… individual… bespoke?
This is all sounding very pompous. I’m not terming this the way it needs to be read to be clear…
Am I aiming for something less than the original image?
An image is an image right? It can only become less than if it is compared next to it’s original or something similar… that’s not going to happen, so I need to deal with the image that is produced… as an individual image in its own right. I am aiming for something more than the original image… not to demean it… to progress and develop it… to give it new personality… a new set of clothes… to give it its own life…
Which brings it back to those building blocks… The deconstruction is the unraveling of the fabric… taking the elements down to their individual forms and then reassembling them in a new manner… the same blocks arranged differently…
… Now I have a plan… Questions answered?
