All images have a denotive meaning (direct or literal meaning) as well as a connotative meaning (suggestive or implicative meaning). Sometimes the line between them is clear like for instance in a newspaper, and sometimes it seems not to exist at all as in art images. In our daily lives we mostly read images in a direct way which costs the least amount of energy and time. The way in which we read the ordinary images needs to ‘fit’ in with our dialy lives and thoughts. Art images do the very opposite of this and often ask a second look. Art images also provide more information then is seen on the surface and are more connected to our feelings and memories.
This blog intents to create more space for the connotations that are attached to ordinary images and the relation between the connotative and denotive meaning of imagery. This blog presents a ‘stream’ of images which tell more about the things you don’t see but do exist. At least in my imagination.
Sander van Heerde is an artist who lives and works in The Hague, Netherlands
www.sandervanheerde.nl
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