We’re always taught at ooni that people will try and read meanign into your work even if there is no meaning. Its just the way humans are, and how people will finish off pictures even if they aren’t there. It’s good because it means you can be subtle about things. But when I come back to the real world it takes on a different perspective. I almost don’t like it. I do it too, everything you read, see and live etc, you try to interpret into some sort of something. But it occurs to me, that all so often I imagine read the completely wrong things into what I think or say or do and take it as truth. It’s hard, because I know I do it. In fact I don’t think we can stop ourselves doing it, its human instinct (if all those theories are correct)- but it kind of gets misleading somewhere in there.
I don’t like the idea that people are thinking wrong random thoughts and thinking that I’ve said it somewhere out there. Maybe I’m not made out to be a designer. I’m all for the lets not read deeper meaning into the design. Because you can only hear how this lemon squeezer is sexually evocative and how it was taken from this picture of a girl… so many times. Sometimes when it comes down to, people just thought it looked cool. Why read so much more into it.
There argument is you need to know how people are going to read it because you can send off the wrong messages. Hmph.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 31st, 2004 at 9:06 am.