Stimuli at the Green Forest
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- Stimuli at the Green Forest
- Stimuli la Pădurea Verde
- 1979-1981
- intervention on b&w photograph
- 30 × 39,8 cm
Starting in 1977, Constantin Flondor’s theoretical interests gradually shifted slowly from structuralism towards semiotics, from signs’ semantics toward their ability to signify. This shift gave rise to a new research topic that produced a new group of works between 1979 and 1981 and thereafter remained present in various forms. This topic, visual communication, also figured into his pedagogical practice—in the form of new “Visual Communications” classes at the Timișoara Art High School. While he had used flour to explore how perception is organised and to comprehend how the physical eye constructs form in his previous photographic experiments such as “Concav-Convex. Successive Perceptions” (1977), his photographic series “Stimuli at Green Forest” reflects upon the role of the eye as an active agent. He deals with the stimuli observed within a visual field (in a forest), marking their presence in ink or tempera directly on the sensitive photographic emulsion or the photographic paper. The anti-stimuli that he organises in the image and overlaps with the natural stimuli become signals, taking on an attribute of indexicality that reveals new meanings in the context of the photographic representation. A.Se.