the fish. After a few attempts, he decodes the meaning with a flashback of a memory. Doty says the poem about the mackerel “was written some six months after my partner of a dozen years had died of AIDS, and of course everything I wrote--everything I saw--was informed by that loss, by the overpowering emotional force of it.” The sad memory of his passing partner influenced his poem and that experience he had then became the encounter he displayed in the poem.
Berger suggests that the encounter is an experience that the artist and art had. Support of Berger’s notion is seen in Hirst’s work were his encounter with a shark is shown in his art. However, he neglected to acknowledge that a person’s memory might influence the experience that leads …show more content…
The memory of the company that manufactures the tank was thought of when when she had the experience with the Hirst’s shark in the tank. That experience then led to the encounter of animals being in captivity for the amusement of humans. Based on Doty and Williams’ encounter that was influenced by a memory they had, Hirst may have also had a memory of a shark being fearsome that led to his encounter of sharks being dangerous. Perhaps he saw a shark almost devour a person or just seen the movie “Jaws.” Either way, it looks like the artwork then no longer creates a complete encounter, but instead just triggers your mind to pick the encounters from your past that relates. The art becomes a filter and only the memories that match the art combine and to determine an encounter. Yet what makes certain memories that don’t seem to relate still contribute to the encounter. It would make sense if Doty had a memory that depicts the actual fish rather than the fact the fish are dead. Likewise, Williams could have thought of actual sharks when looking at the shark but instead other things came to her mind like the manufacture of the tank. Is there possible something else that contribute to the memory that influences the encounter? Could it be the mood or environment that we are in when we see the art? Or could it be a combination of
Berger suggests that the encounter is an experience that the artist and art had. Support of Berger’s notion is seen in Hirst’s work were his encounter with a shark is shown in his art. However, he neglected to acknowledge that a person’s memory might influence the experience that leads …show more content…
The memory of the company that manufactures the tank was thought of when when she had the experience with the Hirst’s shark in the tank. That experience then led to the encounter of animals being in captivity for the amusement of humans. Based on Doty and Williams’ encounter that was influenced by a memory they had, Hirst may have also had a memory of a shark being fearsome that led to his encounter of sharks being dangerous. Perhaps he saw a shark almost devour a person or just seen the movie “Jaws.” Either way, it looks like the artwork then no longer creates a complete encounter, but instead just triggers your mind to pick the encounters from your past that relates. The art becomes a filter and only the memories that match the art combine and to determine an encounter. Yet what makes certain memories that don’t seem to relate still contribute to the encounter. It would make sense if Doty had a memory that depicts the actual fish rather than the fact the fish are dead. Likewise, Williams could have thought of actual sharks when looking at the shark but instead other things came to her mind like the manufacture of the tank. Is there possible something else that contribute to the memory that influences the encounter? Could it be the mood or environment that we are in when we see the art? Or could it be a combination of