Nichole 2-20

"Sometimes I wish I could have a day 300 years ago when the image was pure, not a contruction of what I have consumed"

This quote was one that i read of a fellow classmate and asked myself what a pure image would even mean. As we have discussed in prior classes, I have come to agree that everything we have an opinion on is influenced by everything we read (meaning all texts real and virtual). Thus, I dont really think that there exists such a thing as a pure text, our intake of images and the way we deconstruct them begins from the day we are born. Secondly, I wanted to bring up the one reality that we didnt find an example of in the pictures we were shown. That is representing something that doesnt exist. I was wondering if perhpas the image of the American Flags over the american lives lost at war could qualify for this reality. Thinking about it, the symbolism of american flags that we have come to understand death while serving our country also kind of means that they are absent from the war. At the same time, the image is "real" (that is to say that is in actuality an image somewhere on the web) but also that it could be potentially be made up or digitally enhanced so to make it the second reality which is deemed as "evil" in our class (remember the Katie Courek slim down picture, how upset she was, even though she looked objectively better, she thought the act was the same as our classes opinion which is "evil") So does anyone think that the casket image could qualify as our last reality???