In a message dated 10/21/10 5:13:51 PM, [email protected] writes:
> The writer can't create word meaning alone. The word has no meaning > until the communication occurs and communication requires active > participation > of both writer and reader. > I have just had a very concrete example of this. In naming my image files I use my last name, the title of the piece of work represented in the image,and its dimensions. Necessarily all file names end in .jpg. I emailed my image list to the gallery that asked for a proposal and I copied the file names-which all contain the title remember-without knocking off my last name or the.jpg. (Not good but...)A very competent intern just called to find out how they were supposed to attatch the titles to the images,how they were supposed to know which title went with which image. And it wasn't until I said that when she printed out the image list she might want to knock off the .jpgs that she realized that the file name was the title and that there was no way they could attach the wrong name to an image excpt by some really willfull overthinking. I heard her make the connection. Kate Sullivan
