Chaos is not the problem, but rather, a cause for relief. The real challenge here is managing the competing strains of semi-sense, and facing the obligation of disentangling intertwined categorical designations. Spreading all the relevant documents before me, I can see I will need to generate a series of boxes with words and names scribbled on them. I’ll need tags.
Result of Preliminary Brainstorming:
- art in image = painting
- art in image = photograph
- art in image = sculpture
- colour = 0
- colour = 1
- figure skater
- grid pattern
- highway overpass
- institution
- living humans in image = 0
- living humans in image = 1
- living humans in image = 1+
- passport photo
- party
- preserved or archival (apparently)
- photographer
- Stephen Harper
- wood stack
- space = interior
- space = exterior
- representation = contextual
- representation = reproduction
This list stands as inadequate. I continued to increase the minimum number of attributes any picture must have, from 3 to 4 to 5, and further, each time fracturing the body of images into smaller and more precise groups.
I hesitate before moving into tags so specific that they exist simply to differentiate one image from another extremely similar image based on some subtle minuta. It will take further exploration and creativity to refine the list into only the most useful and essential categories.
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