Text/Image Hunt

I went to the library, pointed to a random page of a random book, and picked a random sentence.

"Sheathe your swords another hour! Do that, and there shall be no pointless bloodshed!"
-Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima. Lone Wolf and Cub. Vol.1, 1995. Page 118

Here are the three images I chose to pair with this sentence:

This image portrays the literal meaning and the source of this sentence: A samurai fight. It adds relatively no meaning to the sentence.


This is an image of Korean nuclear warheads. This makes the quote from the book relate to current political tension, but still displays a possible literal interpretation.

This image is somewhat different from the previous two in that instead of displaying an obvious literal interpretation of the quote, it makes the viewer draw his or her own conclusions. For example, one could interpret that the dog is the speaker of the quote or that the quote is a commentary on humanity's violence in comparison to the natural world represented by the dog. Or, the viewer may see only the dog and draw no conclusion between the two.

This assignment touches on the idea presented in our class discussions and in the text: how no matter the intention of the artist, it is the viewer's interpretation of the piece which shapes the actual meaning.