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January 23, 2016December 19, 2016

Binary Contradiction 2

In the first post where I talked about binary contradiction. I wrote about one way to solve the problem of binary thinking. In this post, I write about a second mechanism. Previously, I used this definition for binaries. Binaries have two requirements. They need to be two elements in opposition to each other. The “on” needs to have the “off” as a binary counterpart.

I want to elaborate on the first section. How can we have two elements but more than two identities? One way to think about this is to imagine two colors, blue and yellow. Now add one drop of blue into a page and add a drop of yellow on top of the blue. The result is a drop of green. Using this line of thinking, we can get a third alternative that arises from the two original binary. This same model a can be used to get at a fourth alternative if we consider that the order of how we combine them matters.

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December 5, 2015December 19, 2016

Diffusion

Diffusion:

We can think of color as a concentration of pigment particles. We can also think of these particles as having a concentration. These concentrations can be higher or lower than other concentrations. This way we can think of colors going from high concentrations to lower concentrations. Moving as a physical process. Here in this series I present a way to visualize the process of diffusion in a digital context.

Another way to think about diffusion comes from an anthropological framework. Here diffusion is the process where a cultural trait moves from one culture to another. If we consider colors as cultural traits, then the series would represent cultural homogenization. Where the cultural traits of one group overpower another.

With this series, I demonstrate that digitally and metaphorically we can represent diffusion. I would like to introduce the idea that art can have multiple meanings presented at the same time. The meanings can exist at the same time without being mutually exclusive or related to each other.

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This is the first video that I post on this website. I have more ideas or videos in the works. Let me know if you would like to see more videos posted by leaving a comment down below.

November 22, 2015December 19, 2016

Abstract Photography

One thing about abstract photography is that deduction or induction don’t work well to get at the meaning of the photograph. Abstract photography encourages you to seek other ways to understand meaning. Other methods that are different from rational thinking. You can create conjectures and inferences to arrive at a meaning, and still you don’t know if it was the original meaning the artist intended. Scientific, analytic and synthetic methods gum up as they approach abstraction. They are not capable of extracting meaning out of an object. Their goal is to describe their existence.

As the meaning for me might be different from your meaning, and those meanings can be different from the meaning of a person standing outside. The way we can get at a common meaning is by a conversation that exchanges conjectures and inferences. And still this is just a shared meaning among a few, it is not absolute. Abstract photography then becomes a conversation starter that has as a goal to share our meanings of the images.

Abstract photography has also a temporal component. As photography in general does, it captures a moment in the past. Seizing that moment in time is a fixed action. While the meanings can continue their course changing their essence as time goes by. The meaning changes in time because the cultural perspectives that are viewing the image shift as references of comparison emerge or disappear.

The abstract theme within photography can maintain the visual integrity of the object. It can also keep its context in which the object exists and still be considered abstract. The intent of the individual at the moment when the photograph was captured is the element that renders it abstract. The freezing in time of a split of a second that turns the photography abstract. Leading you to ask what happened before or after and question its meaning.

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