Image Essay #2

I chose this work by David Salle entitled Nouns. I think it is a good representation of some of the topics we covered in class this previous week. Salle's circuit of meaning here is very open, I think. The title does not help too much; nouns are virtually anything that can be drawn. The images are all easily recognizable, so there is a lot of iconography. Personally I can't make some type of profound insight on what this work might mean, so to me the circuit of meaning is very open. However, the image is aesthetically pleasing and there probably is a deeper meaning that I cannot derive.

The work has different panels with pictures inside each one, so I'm assuming the creator wants the viewer to look at is as you read a sentence, from left to right. The images all have names for them as well, and there is a site which lets you view them up closer. The titles are all one word and they are indeed nouns as the work's name would imply. There are a lot of linens throughout the image as well as statues, which together amount for about half of the imagery. Also it appears that the images with solid-color backgrounds go together in groups of four. Whatever the artist is trying to achieve, it is beyond my comprehension, so the circuit of meaning is very open for interpretation here.