Answer to David's question!

pg. 57 "Audiences have the perverse habit of assuming that the way they think you are communicating is the way that you intended to communicate. As far as they are concerned, the message they get is the only message there is".

Can you think of an instance when someone misinterpreted something that you were communicating (through art, media, etc.)? Have you misinterpreted someone else? If an audience interprets a piece of art or media differently than the the author intended, is the work a "failure"?

There have been many times where I have misinterpreted someone's art, media or other project. Sometimes when I have gone to art museums, I look at the painting and guess what it is and then look at the name of it. Sometimes I'm right and sometimes I'm wrong because not everyone is going to see the same thing and get what the artist was intending to do. Their work is not a failure by any mean because art has the ability to be interpreted many ways and I always think it is better when it is. Someone might see beyond the picture and it might mean something more than it was suppose to. In this class, I don't expect everyone to understand my projects and see what i see at first but instead get their own meaning or idea of it.