Communication

Something i have become extremely passionate about is communication... as an artist i communicate ideas and feelings through color, scale, material, imagery etc. as a human being living in the US (hopefully not for long... there is an empty cave for one ... waiting for me in Iceland...)
I communicate everyday through action ( body language) as well as spoken word and text...
in every way we communicate, whether it is through action, through vision or the transference from voice to auditory, there always arises a disparity between what we mean and what is understood...
For clarity in further exploration of this idea, lets just say that the idea of communication is comprised of three stages,
1.) the communicator - the pure idea, thought, comment, etc. being expressed to another
2.) the intangible act/process of communication (which becomes an operation)- in which the pure idea is transfered and ultimately altered as it moves from one being to another
3.) the receiver- whose nature and environment and own convictions play into the translation of the idea into what they believe is being said

these disparities between what is said and understood, perhaps, may become moments of slippage, which (according to Bataille) is this uprooting that "disappoints expectation" ... and in a sense communication becomes this operation of slippage in which the form ( whether it is material, sound, or touch) and content (what the speaker/communicator/artist is trying to say) become displaced by the action of communication, whose end result is always contingent on the the "receiver of the information" ... this is where the slippage lies, provided that there is a miscommunication-unfavorable or auspicious...

which then brings me to another idea, which would be based around the "receiver" - still follow the afore mentioned contrived progression of communication. The "Receiver" must decipher to information that is being transferred to them... and because they will never truly understand what is being meant by the "communicator" there involved to a certain extent a level of faith or belief... ( if not then everyone would be walking around questioning everything and full of doubt - which is not a bad thing, and is something i condone, and suggest should actually be more common, but due to the nature of our materialist capitalist driven society, it is not- there fore i shall continue- and may elaborate on in the future).... returning back to belief... the receiver instills this sortof belief or faith in what they misconstrue from the "communicator"... which becomes their reality... to believe in something is to accept it as a truth with out any tangible proof... and to accept something as a truth then becomes real to that person... therefore it becomes your reality because you believe it is real...