In clay sculpture a mark often times are finger prints.
So what is really the problem here?How about signature?
mando
On Jun 26, 2009, at 1:30 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Michael writes the material between the brackets:
[On Jun 26, 2009, at 1:38 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Miller's definition was this:
"A mark is whatever is done to a surface in a single uninteruppted
touch." Miller's definition implies marks being limited to human
action
alone.
Where? I'm afraid I don't see it.]
I bracket it, because my small worry is that succinct but sloppy
lingo by
me may have led Michael to think he's responding to me when he
says, "But
your assertion above is one of them inference things, not an
implication.
*You*
interpreted "single uninterrupted touch" to convey exclusively human
touching, not bird-poo. . ."
What cheers...@aol>COM actually wrote was:
[But earlier William conveyed that Miller's definition was this:
"A mark is whatever is done to a surface in a single uninteruppted
touchb&.
Miller's definition
implies marks being limited to human action
alone."]
In fact, however, I largely agree with William's "interpretation"
of what
Chris had in mind. William might have been clearer if he'd said,
"Miller's
definition suggests. . ."
In any case, I presume Chris Miller lives on, though he may be
taking a
long weekend. When he gets back perhaps he'll answer our feather-
weight
question: Did you, Chris, have in mind solely human doings when you
wrote, "A
mark
is whatever is done to a surface in a single uninteruppted touch"?
Michael goes on to say:
"As for my reply to Kate, I was addressing only the nature of human-
made
marks. What I said did not preclude non-human-made marks. . .
I'd say you did a bad job of conveying that. You wrote:
[A mark is a distinctive visual artifact.
Style - from stylus, a writing instrument, a thing that makes a mark.
Mark - a touching of a surface, a line made as an indication or
record of
something
The marks left on the surface--of a painting or of a sculpture, even--
embody and preserve the action of the maker's hand, that is, his
*sytle*. No
two
people make identical marks, or make marks with identical physical
characteristics. Forgeries or handwriting or.. . . ]
I hope you can see why these remarks about "the maker's hand" are
likely to
send readers away with the idea that the notion of 'marks' you had
in mind
was restricted to human product.
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