Who can guess what this means?

[DarkGravity]

Guess is the wrong word. I'm looking to see if this can be deciphered. This is an unfinished drawing from my distant past. The telling of the tale is sloppy, but there is a definite message. I've always wondered if this would make sense to anyone else.

Edited June 27, 2015 by DarkGravity

[WinkAllKerb'']

watchmen, just ask a pictogramm specialist ; ) (cool draw btw and not comic's at all)

[ColKlonk]

You're connecting your Calculator to Eywa

Now stop smoking that stuff..

[RogueMason]

The neurology seems to have got to your head

[lajoswinkler]

Studying neurology near a river?

[RainDreamer]

A stream of consciousness drawing, somewhat literally, since it has a stream that branch off into neurological pathways.

There is perhaps some event in the past that spark your interest in science and it eventually mature into interest of neurology. This power your drive to study neurology, and but it is erratic, perhaps a sign of ADHD?

Anyway, my bs-ing aside, I think it would be hard to ask people finding a meaning in art, since everyone will find one that only they can see. Art is weird like that. It is just what it is, its meaning is irrelevant.

[Shpaget]

Are you trying to hook up a calculator to your brain?

[DarkGravity]

I don't agree with a blanket statement that the meaning of all art is irrelevant. That's kind of like saying when you listen to music in a foreign language, the words are irrelevant if you don't speak that language. I think that art can be a highly error-prone method of communicating, and the message intended by the artist could be highly relevant, not at all relevant or even nonsense. The meaning of the words sung in that foreign tongue might seem irrelevant to your enjoyment of the song at the time, but it is entirely possible that years later you learn to speak that language and find out that the words in one of those songs had a life-changing meaning that would have drastically altered your appreciation of the song, if only you had been able to accurately receive the message that was being sent.

Aliens could drop off a greeting card in the form of a painting. The message could be anything from "Guess what? Chicken butt," to "the Earth will be destroyed on Tuesday." Just because it is art or just because it is hard to decipher doesn't guarantee that the message being sent is irrelevant.

Edited June 27, 2015 by DarkGravity

[Camacha]

I would prefer to think that art can be a highly error-prone method of communicating a message that could be highly relevant, not at all relevant or even nonsense.

That seems to be oversimplifying things and suggests that there is one message communicated. In pretty much none of the works out there that is the case. Works carry an arrangement of messages, which are not only intentionally or accidentally added to the work by the maker, but also spring from the background, frame of reference and experience of the viewer. RainDreamer was mostly much spot on. The meaning of art is in the eye of the beholder, yet claiming it simply is what it is is equally true.

For exactly this reason, guessing at the meaning of the work in the OP is a somewhat futile exercise. Everyone is right and everyone is wrong. Not even the maker can conclusively say what the work means.

[WinkAllKerb'']

colors, lightning, neurone, synapse, electricities, machine, home, nature, tools, pencil, ruler, tree, water, monochrome, letters, book, wire, points, connectivities & etc.

a nice draw for sure ; ) but it miss moaaarrrrr boosterssss xdr no ?

[DarkGravity]

I might not be able to say what messages others may take from my art, but there was a specific message I was trying to communicate. Look at communication in its most common form: two people talking. One is saying to the other "Run! The cops are coming!" At the same time, he may be sending signals that indicate he is so hot that he is sweating, that he is angry and having an adrenaline rush, his choice of clothes might be making a statement that he is a thug from a bad neighborhood, but I think we'd all agree that there is one central message in the conversation: "Run!" And that message is highly relevant. To say that what the speaker is saying doesn't matter would seem ridiculous on its face. So why, when we change the mode of communication from speaking to drawing, would that change? When someone is trying to communicate something to you, how can you say that what they are intending to communicate is irrelevant?

[WinkAllKerb'']

because:

("doh, i think/"feel that" i discovered something more dangerous than fire" 'part' of the irony(ies) is(are) that he shared the draw dark ... ; )

impression: beside feeling, sensitivities and the rise of the thinking and communication process over ages may refer to "paper printing" and "alphabetical caracters / ideopictograms" wich do not exist at this time while the main caracter are using them.

feu: may refer to mort(dead) and maures/mores(moors (per charlie events metaphor))

J crossed with T: je(I) tu(you) also ; je tue(i kill) ; tues je(kill me) ; tu=je (you=me // me=you (per crossing metaphor))

just a few hints but there so so so much more ... (and that only the written part for non french speaker, the drawing in itself use & has a lot of things and different process also like job hunting, feeding activities, social interaction...)

Edited June 28, 2015 by WinkAllKerb''
... & etc ...

[Camacha]

So why, when we change the mode of communication from speaking to drawing, would that change?

It does not have to do with drawing or not, it has to do with something being metaphorical or not. Your drawing does not say Run! The cops are coming! like your example does, your drawing says

The cool touch of the ultramarine

the clutching grasp of the heat.

Spacious bags flurry in crimson red

to once more escape defeat.

Which could be interpreted as two thugs in gang colours running from the law, but also as many, many other things.

When someone is trying to communicate something to you, how can you say that what they are intending to communicate is irrelevant?

It is not irrelevant, it is as relevant as all the other meanings.

Edited June 27, 2015 by Camacha

[Flymetothemun]

It means you need to go down to the Betty Ford Clinic and quit the -ahem- illicit substances.

[WinkAllKerb'']

; ) most often a fun thing are the non intentionnal(unconsciousness//counsciouness) and random thing that make sense also ; ) artitisticly speaking it often happen that later on you discover that you put something in what you've done without even thinking about it ; ) but arts use a lot of known and well oiled process and randomness and others interpretations are part of the show ; )

"Ici je m'asseois et reve, à de si tendre rime" -sit and dream-

(here i sit and dream, to tender rime) + (a de "si tendre rime" = sit and dream phoenetics) (12 + 6 cut) i wrote this around 15 on purpose for exemple ; ) but it could have been a random result also wich happen all the time in everyday life ; )

Edited June 28, 2015 by WinkAllKerb''

[Voidryder]

I'll take a stab at interpreting your drawing:

You had bad headaches as a child. The best anyone could do was label you with a diagnosis but any treatment fell short. You on the other hand often saw the natural progression of events, causes, patterns in brilliant flashes of insight. But you were unable to make what you understood/knew to be understood by others. Leaving you to feel despair and isolation from everyone including your family.

Or

You were studying the brain and synapse. You realized the sheer volume of signals (calculations) each neuron was doing a second was much greater than that a handheld calculator, yet similar to a handheld calculator. Which lead you to contemplate the progression of a thought to the physical world (tree to pencil and ruler - logical world) which lead to the realization that each of our brains (house) manifest a forest of ideas that become reality.

Or...

I think I'll have wee bit more whiskey before I go on....

Edited June 28, 2015 by Voidryder
typo

[WinkAllKerb'']

...

I think I'll have wee bit more whiskey before I go on....

i ll grab a beer ; ) for some reason i don't like much around40° alcool , much more 60°++ ones and 20° and lower ones ; ) hope you don't mind void ; ) cheers ; )

Edited June 28, 2015 by WinkAllKerb''

[Voidryder]

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Not at all Wink, not at all. Just remember pure O2 will cure the hurt in the mornin'.

[BagelRabbit]

I... um... I do think we should stick to the topic at hand, and not the topic of alcoholic beverages.

To be honest, though, I have no idea what this thing means, and it is quite possible to interpret it in many different ways.

I like to compare this sort of art to tapping the notes to a song on the dashboard and asking a friend to identify the song:

"tap tap tap tap, taptaptaptaptap."

"'California Girls?'"

"No, 'Happy' by Pharell Williams."

It's quite easy for the 'tapper' to hear his or her own song in the taps. It's also quite difficult for anyone else to hear it, because they lack the proper context. If I knew what your life was like, I would be willing to hazard a guess as to the nature of this drawing, but right now I lack the proper context to do so.

I'm quite proud of that metaphor, by the way, even though I really shouldn't be... I'm quite tired, and that makes my brain work in... interesting... ways.

-Upsilon

[DarkGravity]

Voidryder, I appreciate you taking such a detailed stab at interpreting my old drawing. As someone who (obviously) isn't an artist, I've often wondered how many others would be able to receive the message I was sending. 1%? 10%? 50%? Certainly with more skill in drawing and art in general the number would have been higher than it is. I'll eventually post what it was I was trying to communicate, but I'd like to see a few more posts first.