Ambiguity

So much collage!
Anyway, I agree with Alyssa; I began to appreciate the book more through the end. I thought it was interesting how he brought up the idea of common sense (pg. 143) and how Nadja had lost, or had maybe never even possessed, common sense at all. It made me think of how it would apply to collage, and whether there need be any sense in it at all.

In “N,” since it is all taken from the front page of the New York Times, I wondered how Jackson put it together and made her decisions on how she was going to make sense of it all, (there it is again). I was thinking about what her intention was and how she considered how she was going to achieve that using just the material she designated for herself. I really liked the way she set it up, but my favorite part was the first paragraph of “Conversation Gospel,” when she discussed what constituted a conversation. Since "N" wasn't given a clear identity, he remained a bit ambiguous and left to be interpreted, as I found. I just found it to be an interesting concept, and now looking back, I realize that she made it all work using minimal materials.

Now, “Daily News” was another interesting form of collage, yet so much different. There was clearly much less text, but I liked that about it because there was less to absorb and it was easier to take in all at once and I could go back and look it over again and again. Since it isn’t set up in exact lines, it is a little ambiguous and so sometimes you can decide how you want to read which line for yourself, (or at least, that’s how I found it to be).