That was an interesting story about the pictographs that you shared in the comments yesterday. They’ve been there a long time and have “weathered” really well. It is surprising they haven’t been covered up by graffiti. Would love to know if there really is a story being them or just random colorful images.
Well, I guess when someone is pursuing “an inward search for self”, illustrating the search might come across as random images, but then the way my mind works certainly seems quite random at times so who knows. But my cynical guess here is that it was more of a random set of images tagged with a deep interpretation (i.e. the search for self) in order to make the images have deeper meaning than they really did to the artist. (In the interest of full disclosure, part of my cynicism here due to the fact that I’ve often spent plenty of time trying to assign meaning to some of my own work in order for it to come across as more than simple images. That’s good in the sense that it forces your mind to try and figure out why you’re doing what you’re doing. But it’s not so good when you don’t really know and just pick some idea making sure it exudes the right amount of gravitas.)
Interesting pictographs and different from the ones we see at Cedar Mesa.
Really good to see you back on-line with POTD!
Michelle
Thanks Michelle, and hope to see you at Cedar Mesa again soon, even if I can only qualify for camp tender rather than explorer like before.
That was an interesting story about the pictographs that you shared in the comments yesterday. They’ve been there a long time and have “weathered” really well. It is surprising they haven’t been covered up by graffiti. Would love to know if there really is a story being them or just random colorful images.
Well, I guess when someone is pursuing “an inward search for self”, illustrating the search might come across as random images, but then the way my mind works certainly seems quite random at times so who knows. But my cynical guess here is that it was more of a random set of images tagged with a deep interpretation (i.e. the search for self) in order to make the images have deeper meaning than they really did to the artist. (In the interest of full disclosure, part of my cynicism here due to the fact that I’ve often spent plenty of time trying to assign meaning to some of my own work in order for it to come across as more than simple images. That’s good in the sense that it forces your mind to try and figure out why you’re doing what you’re doing. But it’s not so good when you don’t really know and just pick some idea making sure it exudes the right amount of gravitas.)