[spoilers] Lucas and his tattoos

[A Cousin]

(05-12-2010 10:52 PM)binkie Wrote:  The work of Blake is rendered in a manner very like encryption. It makes use of a set of extremely personal signs, symbols, textures and colours in such a way as to communicate superficially the abstract subject of the piece without ever guaranteeing access to the depth of meaning in the tightly-packed specific motive in the content. Blake lived inside his own head to the point almost of exclusion from the world around him. He did not leave a key to his code: he thought the work was the key to the code. Blake did indeed employ a “very specific iconography”, but we do not, as yet, really understand what this is, or what it might mean. We do not understand the code. Perhaps this is the real secret at the centre of Lucas’ survival within the system. He has subverted the nature of the controlling language -with its “specific iconography”, and its self-sustaining rules – by use of a fragment of language which, quite contrary to its apparent value, is in fact a token from outside the system. Lucas is his own code, and cannot be so easily read.

Cake for anyone who's made it to the end!

Chocolate please! And a paracetemol as well. My eyes are bad and my glasses are worse. You are nothing if not completely thorough!

I am not familiar with Russian tatoo culture, so this thread has been enlightening for me. I am a more familiar with Blake. I am not certain that I am ready to discard the "God as Architect" symbolism of The Ancient of Days image. After reading the last line, I put to you that you have presented a rather convincing argument for the Lucas in not really Lucas idea. He is not what he seems and not, as you put it, so easily read.

Scurries off, dodging rotten tomatoes....