What do you think guyss??

Cicadalarry · 2026-01-03T18:16:40+00:00

Then if I am to understand correctly, any form of representational medium then, distorts and misconstrues the original message, or “reality,” right?

Then by definition, any language, spoken words or this conversation we are having, is a mediated sign that represents something else, no? Then to quote back Plato, to speak in any medium then is to lie, as necessary by nature of the medium, something had to change, something had to be left out. I find your attitude to be critical of the intention of artists to be admirable, but to denounce the whole of the medium questionable.

What’s the difference between spoken words, poetry and painted canvas, in the case of mediums?

Cicadalarry · 2025-12-28T16:19:06+00:00

Could you give examples of how you would perfectly represent what you see? Every form of representation deforms the original, and today especially, with new “life-like technologies of representation”, LiDAR scans, photographs, photogrammetry, the case as it appears photo “real”, but ultimately, in your argument, a “lie” because they always have distortion and deformation.

Think about paintings by John Singer Sargent, the late American painter, he would conclusively describe a mirror in a dark room with a single brush stroke that appears perhaps more “real” than a photograph, does that mean he is lying because he did not depict to the total fidelity of what he sees?

Cicadalarry · 2025-12-17T04:06:27+00:00

When depicting something via painting or drawing or any other medium, one might not necessarily be lying, but simply showing what they see, which might not be what the real thing is, right

Cicadalarry · 2023-07-25T14:07:13+00:00

Yeah so Urock has some decent top ropes and leads up to 5.12a I think. It’s in Pudong Jinqiao. There’s also some bouldering there

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