Apologies, I should have added my last two posts were notes toward how
to make a triptych or a theory of a triptych but my brain, when I am
tired, seems to shut down half way through something these days. (So
does my laptop when the battery gets low, come to think of it.)
It has be said that a first person voice has a three part structure. I
have read academic articles on Kant and Hegel which provide and point to
ideological images of the world we live and these have three parts. The
trope of poverty seems to be all around us these days; from comments on
the increasing cost of food I hear often in the supermarket to
television and news media where poverty is reported as a factor in the
Victorian bush fires and linking poverty as human fragility to the face
of sublimely huge nature. Poverty seems to blanket the world as does
illicit drug culture so that we are all affected in various ways. These
take on sublime proportions and where ideological images of the world
take on a hazy poorly defined apparition. Poverty becomes our fate as if
a fact we cannot challenge.
My difficulty is that the above three part structures don't seem yet to
make a triptych and perhaps cannot be a triptych. I am not even sure
that this can even go toward what a triptych is. Perhaps this is what
not to do? One thing of interest though is the framing of a triptych
where it could be said that the frame makes the sublime crystallisation
and this also sharpens ideological images. Traditionally a triptych is
not framed but today with photography is framed. So it is interesting to
look at framing.
I could go on, since a night's sleep seems to have aided clarity? Best
wishes Chris Jones
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