Kldl

After tracing my symmetric guitar from assignment 10, I took a second to think about the best way to draw something that is about to fall. As my head became cluttered with possible complications that could arise from part C of the assignment, I decided to take the process one step at a time. I pictured the guitar in my mind and then craftily designed a scenario in which the instrument would fall. I put the guitar on the edge of a table! Everyone knows a regular acoustic guitar can't just stand up on it's own and the addition of the table further ensured the viewer that the instrument would indeed fall to a musical death. Although a bit on the dramatic side, the point was, this guitar was about to fall.

In order to put the guitar in a manner in which it was about to fall, I used the previous knowledge I knew about guitars and gravity. I then came up with an abstract scenario applying that knowledge, and pictured it briefly in my mind. That mental picture was then transferred to the page. Another person who did not know much about acoustic guitars (or through an obscure isolated life did not understand the laws of gravity), would not think this picture showed something about to fall, but instead showed a guitar simply sitting on a ledge. In addition, an outside person oblivious to the assignment might not think to apply any information about guitars or gravity, and simply enjoy the picture. To these people the guitar was not about to fall, but simply on a table. Therefore, for another to see the guitar in those circumstances three things must have been known: what was in the picture, why the picture was drawn, and what knowledge the artist had of the contents of the picture. Even with all this knowledge, the viewer would still not be able to observe my original mental picture, and therefore not understand "about to fall" the same way I did. One can stare at Picasso's obscured paintings for hours but no one will completely know

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