( source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21365978@N04/3191034200/in/pool-filmdatabase )
This post is an informal continuation of my fellow writer's earlier post on long titles for artpieces. The title of the photo above was given as The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself (W. Blake). One wonders: do particular quotes seem to encapsulate certain ideas that are reflected in the pieces of art that they are attached to? Could we perhaps take a quote that seems to say nothing at all about a piece of art, juxtapose the two, and then uncover some possible correlation or meaning that links the two?
Perhaps you could try that with your next work of art, be it a photo, a painting, a sketch, a design, a poem, a piece of prose, or even a novel. New lesson of the day: incongruity is the source of ingenuity.
'incongruity'; quite simply my favourite word and technique.
ReplyDeleteI can't write lit essays without it. I see incongruity everywhere.
i really like this post of yours; i think your suggestion of giving a seemingly unrelated title to a piece of work is a really thought-provoking one. also, i want to agree that incongruity is omnipresent in life!
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