Journaling Project 1

 




Metal Art Installation of Human Skeleton and Dinosaur Skeleton

I chose this image because it goes along with my project of repurposing snapshots of places I have been.  This image actually being one that I have taken elements from, those elements being linguistic ones.  Prior to analyzing this image, I want to share a quote from Barthes, "Does the image duplicate certain of the informations given in the text by a phenomenon of redundancy or does the text add a fresh information to the image?"(38).  I am interested in this quote because I understand Barthes was talking about the image in a very focused lens of advertisements.  However, when we expand this to other images such as this random one of an art installation stationed in front of a graffitied wall, you can begin to ponder on the meaning of the image.  For example, this specific image contains so much to be explored, firstly the many words, some obscured and some legible.  Clearly legible, are the words, "say hi", or, "BBQ", but they have no control over the meaning of the image, instead they work with the image to create meaning based on the context of the image.  In terms of symbolic messages, we have imagery of skeletons which gives connotations of death of the passage of time.  With that, there is the general urban decay and the grittiness of the streaky wall splatter with graffiti.  Furthermore, there is the decision to place a human skeleton with a dinosaur skeleton and the implications that go along with that.  What I find even more interesting is how the image can add fresh meaning through the slippage of time.  I mean to say that when we look at this image, we do not know the order of how this wall came to be.  Which graffiti tag was placed first, were people drawn to tag this wall because the art installations?  The way in which text is engaging with image is interesting because the timing of when the was taken image plays a significant role.  For my project, I am relating to Barthes, because I am using these images of graffitied walls, some of them including text.  



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