Post 36: Getting from an image to a thought
This post began (but also begins) with this photo: which I took because the sight of what it contains prompted this incomplete thought: [something about when stripes are combined with another thing that very much doesn’t look like stripes.] It’s interesting to me that what I’m calling the “incomplete thought”--the first thing that happened after my viewing, what immediately took place--is really only a template for a thought. The incomplete thought includes simply what’s present in the photo, plus the words “something about”--the template idea here being that “something about” seems to stand for a thought that hasn’t yet happened. These two words that have very little specific meaning were all that got added to what was already given by the image, which feels merely like a demonstration of what it could be to have a thought about this photo--a thought in full being what would theoretically replace the words “something about” with an actual/specific thing . But I suppose the lack ...