art blog

To spare my less art-oriented readership at least a little bit of in-jokery and topics of limited interest outside the art world:

http://counterforces.blogspot.com/

I have said before....

I suppose it is my early training in hermeneutics and in the mechanics of perception, but I continue to be amazed at how people extract quite different things from posts from what the writers primarily intended. The information was there all along, for the most part; we are educated enough not to misread one another. But we don't catch the undertones or what makes a post feed into someone's personal obsession; we read it in terms of our own chief features.

Obvious, really, which must be why no one else bothers to remark on it as often as I do.

By the way, it is interesting albeit probably meaningless that several blogs I follow chose to post their dreams on the same day, when they ordinarily do not do so. In each case, the dream had no obvious meaning, nor did the dreams align in any way that I could discern; nothing deeply mystical, just an odd coincidence of topic across people who don't know one another, though they do overlap by at least one community or blog, else I'd not have discovered them in the first place. Yet the linkages approach several degrees of separation; someone commenting on someone else's blog, not even necessarily posted as one of their mutual friends.