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Visual Culture, Black is emptiness - Coggle Diagram
Visual Culture
Seeing
Sight requires light in some form. Light could be physical, or "light" could be abstract
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Invisibility: that which cannot be seen cannot be understood. Yet, the concept is well-understood within human context.
Duality of sight:
An invisible watcher can see but cannot be seen. The watched cannot see but can be seen.
Sophie Calle's Suite Venitienne, is a stronger take on Acconci's project. Instead of hinging upon watching without being noticed, Calle's project relies on not being seen by the subject, at all.
Vito Acconci's art project, Following Piece, demonstrates the almost arbitrary nature of sight. His "art" hinges upon watching without being noticed.
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Color
"Good" Color
White
A Coat of Whitewash: The Law of Ripolin
Le Corbusier extravagantly connects purity, cleanliness, morality, and perfection with a specific white paint.
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"Bad" Color
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Black
Fact of Blackness
Fanon proclaims that black indeed has meaning, albeit somewhat twisted. Black is only "black" when it is amongst other colors.
Lighting
Light
Plato's Cave
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Light As a Metaphor for Truth
Blumenberg finds that the conditions for Plato's Cave is artificial. The darkness and the light are human-influenced.
Nevertheless, light still emits truth. The "naturalness" of the truth, however, is debatable.
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Black is emptiness
Colors/Black
Paul La Farge comment upon black's dubious nature as a color. In the Cabinet Magazine, he writes:
"I was going to write, the color black, but as every child knows black isn't a color" (2009-2010)
Black is missing things, hiding things, and likely doesn't exist.
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Dark and black are the same. Both are an emptiness, a lack of color.
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