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The picture of the thing is not the thing. The reason the picture exists is to represent the thing. But it is not the same as the thing itself. The picture is an incomplete representation of the thing, even if it is a perfect rendering of the thing.
The picture leaves things out. And by leaving things
out it forces us to focus on the representations the artist wants us to see. We
aren’t distracted by the noises or the smells or the insignificant details.
Think back to all the different renderings of “the pieta” artists have created
over time. Each artist forced us to see what he wanted us to see.
This is not a bad thing. The artist left things out on
purpose. When they did they expressed the things they wanted the viewer/reader/
user to see. The artist gets to make the point they want to make, it doesn’t
just appear by happenstance.
What are you leaving out of your story? Does leaving
those things out tell your story the way you want? Or are you leaving it to
chance? The decisions you make about the parts of the story you tell form the
crux of the story. The question is this: Do the parts you leave out tell the
story you want to tell?
John Mariotti
www.sunday-stories.blogspot.com
775-338-2412
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