21 February 2007

thirteen.


thirteen.
Originally uploaded by lookslikespiltink.

7 comments:

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I keep seeing livestock in these. I wonder what that says about my psyche?

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I should not even be writing a comment on this journal.
Maybe it is most appropriate to read no further than the following words:

(LOOKS LIKE SPILT INK)
(INK SPILT LIKE LOOKS)

Every spilt-ink image seems to display equal potential for any image and interpretation. I'm compelled by the fact that all your posts comprise a large, monochromatic mirror reflecting the minds of your visitors. Because it also portrays an externalized exploration into your own thoughts through incidental marks indexing specific moments in your outlook, your blog appears to investigate the motivations and resulting artifices within blogging and the collective publicization of personal experience. The fact that these images are scanned from spontaneous bilateral two-dimensional images appear to convey a reflective perspective that embodies and expresses the limitations of a digitalied human form.

I can't help but refer back to Aristophanes' comic poetic account for the origins of love, and a song by Stephen Trask (I originally heard in a Rufus Wainwright cover):

"When the earth was still flat,
And the clouds made of fire,
And mountains stretched up to the sky,
Sometimes higher,
Folks roamed the earth
Like big rolling kegs.
They had two sets of arms.
They had two sets of legs.
They had two faces peering
Out of one giant head
So they could watch all around them
As they talked; while they read.
And they never knew nothing of love.
It was before the origin of love."

However, you demystify the subject in all its Rorschach glory by your flatly demystifying title, "looks like spilt ink." You are then directing our attention toward the actions of uploading, scanning, conceptual appropriation and reproduction that appear so ubiquitous in technologically enabled information exchange. Am I going too far if I interpret your undercase numeric titles as a commentary on minimalist (but not minimal) art labels? How about the phrase "Originally uploaded by lookslikespiltink"?

LOOKS LIKE SPILT INK
(INK SPILT LIKE LOOKS)

I should not even be writing a comment on this journal.
Maybe it is most appropriate to read no further than the following words:

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INK SPILT LIKE LOOKS

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INK SPILT LIKE LOOKS

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INK SPILT LIKE LOOKS

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