Lastly there is a fork.

The past several weeks I've been thinking about my drawings in a way which is I found to be a dead end, but I'm glad that it happened - it's not often I reach a satisfying conclusion in my work (a satisfying dead end?). I was introduced to the concepts of structuralism and semiotics, which I will let wikipedia summarize, but I fluctuate back and forth often as to how focal these concepts should be to my work. The most obvious connections are in how my work is reliant upon bringing in information that isn't objectively available (an understanding of something on an arbitrary level) and how I use a fixed set of actions to create an object. It's actually fairly easy to discuss my work in these terms. However these terms don't strike me as particularly functional, except perhaps to provide some legitimacy through linguistic theory. It's easier to discuss my work in other terms that are less alienating, especially because it's not all that close to being my sole focus. If someone views my work in this manner, I would be comfortable with discussing this and knowing that it is not off base at all. But I also want to keep it from being the sole hangup that people respond to when they view my work.