Colleen Bernhard. Interpretive Blog Statement.

In her writing, Colleen shows that interpreting art is both creative and original as well as an activity with multiple meanings and rules. Through the works of Umberto Eco, Walter Benjamin, and Roland Barthes she discusses how text can be felt in ways museumgoers have never thought of, but that each viewpoint is key to the understanding of a certain piece. The artist she focuses on, Friedrich Kunath, has tied text into his work in a literal sense by writing a phrase and illuminating it with light to catch the viewer’s attention. Colleen hopes to catch her readers’ attention by making clear concise statements that correlate what Eco, Benjamin and Barthes discuss vividly in their essays. Let the Distance Keep Us Together seems to the naked eye, a simple piece of Perspex glass with felt words tacked on, but to Colleen these words have more meaning which she talks about in her interpretive writing. 

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