And what about the viewer?
Art exists externally, in the past this was always a physical object. Latterly, it is more likely to display digitally.
But art objects also exist in the mind of the recipient.
There may be a collective experience, at a concert or the theatre, yet each member of the audience sees and hears the same performance but interprets individually. Also, each performance is unique and the individual creates a unique profile, influenced by their cultural condition.
This may seem determined, as fixed and immutable but that is not the case here. Returning to a book that I haven’t read for a while, there is another profile. The book is the same collection of words yet the perceptual ‘I’ has changed.
Is the profile I create the artwork or me?
So what about the viewer?
