Finding stuff, losing signal
Mar. 14th, 2003 10:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
featherynscale Found Magazine
Paging through found notes posted on Found Magazine, I come across one that begins with the phrase "WORD begets IMAGE, IMAGE is DECAY". This strikes me - not a bad summary of the process of communication. The vision in my mind becomes a word, which I transmit as a signal, which you hear and then envision - your vision and mine may vary. The more precise the word, the cleaner the signal, the closer the match. Still, invariably, IMAGE is DECAY.
I wonder if that was what the fellow who wrote the lost note meant? How clean the signal, how close the match?
Found fascinates me - each picture or fragment is a seed for stories. I get caught up in presumed lives expressed in the smallest things. A few months ago, I found a note in a book, written on a tiny shred of paper. It read "How deep does a reference have to be before it drowns?" I hope I kept that note.
Paging through found notes posted on Found Magazine, I come across one that begins with the phrase "WORD begets IMAGE, IMAGE is DECAY". This strikes me - not a bad summary of the process of communication. The vision in my mind becomes a word, which I transmit as a signal, which you hear and then envision - your vision and mine may vary. The more precise the word, the cleaner the signal, the closer the match. Still, invariably, IMAGE is DECAY.
I wonder if that was what the fellow who wrote the lost note meant? How clean the signal, how close the match?
Found fascinates me - each picture or fragment is a seed for stories. I get caught up in presumed lives expressed in the smallest things. A few months ago, I found a note in a book, written on a tiny shred of paper. It read "How deep does a reference have to be before it drowns?" I hope I kept that note.