Abstract

Perhaps more than any other type of artist, visual artists have the unfair impediment of being asked what their work means. The response to such an inane question is often a thinly veiled frustration at the spectator’s inability to tangle with what is present before him. It may be that our evolutionary reliance on sight informs all of our senses to the point that they no longer work together but operate under a sort of hierarchy. Our perception of reality is to first see an object, then name it, touch it, hear it, smell it, and so on. Yet still, we remain unable to totally apprehend an artistic piece when it represents an object differently than what we expect. As viewers of art, we’ve come to accept a ..