I try to find a pattern in the randomness. Is there a message hidden for someone?
Was it meant to cross the barriers of language, culture and time – if someone sees it long after the imprints were created?
Palms, thumbs, teardrops, jellyfish … certainly something to do with aquatic life ….or just the uncontrolled artwork of a kid, and this is all he could draw within his capability and available material?
Why do we try to read between the lines so much, when the matter is confined to language, level of intelligence and writing tools? It is only the author’s perspective.
It’s Six Sentence Story Thursday Link Up!
Tale weaver – #287 – Mysterious Markings – 6th August
Reena Saxena 
Whenever I am at the doctor’s office, I look at the acoustic ceiling tiles and try to find the same pattern on them, refusing to believe each one is random
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I hope the doctor has devoted some attention to the patterns 🙂
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Seems I am always looking at odd things and trying to make images of them. The sidewalk cracks project encourages this. Isn’t it fun to stretch the imagination? Nice six.
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It certainly is fun 🙂 Thank you, Lisa!
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Perhaps we’re so conditioned to expect everything in the world to make sense that we even try to make sense of art. For me, art represents emotion. Very often an artist may have created a work with a meaning specific to them but…. seems to me the nature of art is to allow for individual interpretation which surely is part of the fun!
Once again, Reena, your Six has given my tired brain a little exercise. Thank you 😀
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I agree. Different interpretations add value to the piece. There are many a times when I see a comment and think “This is not what I intended to convey”, but fine … it opens up avenues for further development on the subject. Flash fiction anyway, is more of an opening scene or slice of life than a story.
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I like that you tried to understand what it might mean. Good one Reena, thanks for your insights this week.
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Thank you, Michael!
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Reads like me trying to interpret Cubism. I’ve spent eons on trying to interpret some poetry and just given up. I have such a simple mind, please don’t go too deep, it’s beyond my understanding. That was a very interesting SSS, Reena.
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Thank you, Len! 🙂
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A good thought-provoking six. I can’t help trying to make some sense of art, in seeing something that triggers a connection. But I love too the mystery of not knowing/understanding it.
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Thank you so much!
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Good question! I know I am guilty of trying to make sense of it all, but short of being the other person, well I may have to wait a while, a long while.
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What a nice way of summing it up all! Thank you, Pat!
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We want everything to make sense, to tie up loose ends nice and tidy. Life isn’t like that, and we keep trying to make it be like that.
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That is so right. Thank you, Mimi!
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I always try to find the meaning of patterns and plots. There is less randomness than we think. There is a plan.
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I wish we could learn more about reading the plan.
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I do that too. And sometimes you do find patterns in randomness.
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i agree.
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well…because we all (well, some of us) know there is more (between and among people) and if we look, just the right way, we will be able to hear it all/see it all/understand it all.
Thought-provoking, yo
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Good point about reading between the lines. Perhaps we need to see enough on the surface to tempt us to look for more. It may just be the author’s perspective.
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Thank you, Frank!
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