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- Jim Hamlyn
- Glasgow and Aberdeen, Scotland
- Artist and lecturer interested in contemporary art practice, philosophy and teaching. Thanks especially to Peter McCaughey for encouraging me to start this blog and Lesley Punton, without whom I would never have continued. Thanks also to Donald Brook whose work on representation and cultural evolution continues to lead me to significant new insights about the nature of mind and imagination.
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Anarchist pear?
Exactly - a pear of anarchists.
Threefold sign: ikon/flag, symbol/anarchism, index/pear.
Nice! It gets a little more complicated though when you consider the "message without a code".
Complicated pear....
Coded message/ flag (from the title), coded iconic message/ anarchist flag, message without a code?/ pear with dead leaf attached "that might have been".
Problem: If the literal meaning of the photograph must now automatically carry the qualifier "that might have been" then can the category of "message without a code" still be usefully applied to the photograph?
Most of us now see the photograph for what it is, a thoroughly coded message. One "simple" fact remains however, by definition every photograph is an index of something!
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