Hybridity

According to Launching the Imagination, by Mary Stewart, hybridity "may be defined as the creation of artworks using disparate media and meaning to create a unified  conceptual statement." With all of the shapes in the painting of I wish I could help you, by Daniel Sutherland (1994, oil on canvas on wood with hardware), the mind is constantly trying to familiarize itself with what is going in the painting. It is somewhat like the vagueness principle where the mind makes connections even when a full description is not given. Regardless of what the shapes are, the mind will try to fit them into categories that are known rather than keeping them in the unknown. The reason this is relative to artwork I may produce is because it helps to open my mind as to what art can be and that is makes a piece more interesting when there are unknowns involved. The unknown allows the mind of the audience to be creative, ponder, and try to figure out what the creator of the piece is trying to convey.

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