This  abstract photo  was made in January 2019 whilst I was on a coastal poodlewalk along the southern Fleurieu Peninsula with Kayla. The picture  or image was  made  in  the  early morning near from Petrel Cove in the summer light.

The word 'image’ often gets tied to the  arbitrariness entailed in individual perception and opposed to the external solidity associated in the vocabulary of ordinary language philosophy with the ‘picture’. Susan Sontag held that  images don’t tell us anything, they remind us what is important. This  implies that   the ‘image’ as a type of inner perception, or mental idea, impression or memory. 

This can be interpreted  along the lines that an image that exerts a hold and that lives beyond its medium presupposes an agent who is engaged by it, i.e., who finds it meaningful or significant. An image is a sensuous experience of meaning that organises a world.  It possesses a communicative force that is surplus to its perceptible form.

 This is a converted black and white version of the previous image. I was working my way  around the  granite formation, just around the western corner  of Petrel Cove, and I saw the shapes-- perceptible form--- of the granite in black and white:

The meaning embodied in the image is the ‘something more’ than the form.  The something more  is contributed by its dynamic relation with the recipient of the image. As such, the capacity to convey meaning does not belong to the perceptible form per se. This means that the something more  of the image must include memory, dreams and imagination.   

The image is transferrable to contexts other than its original one and  it can take on additional layers of meaning.