Wysocki

Wysocki Reading

Questions for Discussion and Journaling:

2. Wysocki is definitely trying to change up the visual field for her audience. The reading is so much different than normal readings in novels or even text books for a class. The writings in “Readings on Writings” seem to honestly usually bore me. It is always the same structure and drawn out pages of simply reading. When I have to read 10 or 20 pages of straight writing with no change up I seem to get bored and really it is just hurting myself. When I start to get bored my mind then drifts off and I began to think about other things. Therefore, the fact that she tries to change up the visual work and use different types of organization for her paper it keeps me interested. It helps that I can look at different things and my mind attracts to different areas of the paper. It keeps the flow of the paper going because you are not starring at the same pages every time you turn the paper, there is always something new to look at. I think all these qualities make it a high-visual text as Bernhardt would explain it. There is layout changes and images and things to connect your reading to an actual physical image.

Applying and Exploring:

2. I truly believe that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Beauty and appreciation are individual thoughts. You cannot tell someone or force them to believe something is beautiful when in their opinion it could be foul or hideous. No one person can look at a painting, a sculpture, magazine, book, clothing, shoes, sunset or a puppy and see the same things. What we take away from things we see like said in the book, are egocentric. What we have gone through in our past shapes the way we view things and what we classify as beautiful or not. You cannot force someone to appreciate something that just does not appreciate. I agree with Wysocki on this one when she says “beauty is something we construct together”.  Beauty is not something that pleases universally like Kant believes because like I said one person could see something beautiful and the other person could see crap. Beauty is subject to opinions and social forces.

Meta Moment:

I think this statement completely applies to Wysocki’s article. I went into this reading thinking it would be like any other reading in “Readings on Writing” but even starting looking at the first page you can automatically see that it is different from a normal article. You go into every article or reading thinking that it will be the same. 10 to 20 pages of continuous information and reading and then it ends. The pictures and breaking down of different structure make her work different. So these things are what give this article more freedom and possibility of change. It pushes the boundaries of normal articles especially from the other articles that are in the same book. It pushes the horizontal and parallel lines of expected writing. It changes frequently in the writing to show different ways in which you can differentiate your writing. It gives the paper a new life and new flavor. This statement could apply to many other visual arts like magazines, articles, paintings, and drawings.