Longinus, Devitt, and Duval-Carrie

As I tried to figure out yesterday, Longinus has an interest in language, whether he dances around it using audience as a form of language or not, I'm still unsure. However! I have come to some realizations that help us understand both Longinus and Devitt (funny to put these two in the same post), and in turn put them in some sort of relation to Duval-Carrie. With Longinus he wants us to understand the specificity of the sublime, I mean the sublime of his time period, not the artistic 18th century sublime. Longinus's sublime that refers to "the echo of a noble mind" (pg. 350) Which could be better said as the sublime can only be reached under certain circumstances of clarity, and I guess, for lack of better words, a powerful mind.

Now if we take that and attempt to apply it to situational rhetoric, what do we get? Situation being "Specifically, as Halliday defines it, situation consists of a field (roughly, what is happening), a tenor (who is involved), and a mode (what role language is playing) (31-35). (Pg. 577) The problem we see Devitt have is, does genre interrupt the situation and vice versa? He then goes on to try and solve that. However, I'm more focused on applying the sublime to situation and in turn use Duval-Carrie's art as an example.

So, in Duval-Carrie's work, we see a ton of situation, and situational rhetoric through his art. He brings light slavery and the horrific issues that come along with it in a strange way. With vibrant colors, and the use of shiny resin. Could we say that Duval-Currie reached a moment of sublimity in order to create these pieces that tell us so much in an unconventional way? I know we can for sure see the use of situation here, he's telling us quite literally where and what happened. On top of all that, he has created art that sets us in a genre I've never seen before. For instance, have you ever seen a picture of a lynching surrounded by sand dollars, and on top of the glittery resin, little toy bugs glues around the picture? I think there's a lot to think about here. One, did he have a moment of sublime; or does he give his viewer a moment of sublime? And two, I think we could say that situation and genre play off of each other in his pieces.