Condition of Agreement | Symmetry axis Significant sequence Unrehearsed response |
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eminiscent of a Rorschach inkblot test, vertical movement perpendicular to the waterscape horizon provides an abstraction full of penetrating denotation. In media-studies jargon, denotation is defined as the first level of analysis: what an observer can visually see. If what is seen is ambiguous, then a transition to connotation is almost instantaneous. What we bring to the table is more significant than what is on the table.
“Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.” - Albert Camus
