Pollock as the Anti-Writing

The emphasis on most writing is its content. The sounds of words and their appearance on the page exists to represent or describe an action, thing, or idea. Authors occasionally experiment with literature’s form, as Shaman Sexson has described James Joyce as doing. However, words are limiting in this endeavor, and the result of such experiments as Finnigans Wake is a book that few people actually read.
The opposite of this, therefore, is Jackson Pollock. His art was not meant to depict content, such as a person or a place; it was meant to simply exist as a byproduct of an action. Pollock’s pieces chronicle his act of painting, and their chaos suggests it was an interesting sight. He would dance and move while violently flinging paint at the canvas. If his dances had any linearity or meaning, it was lost on him. To anyone viewing his work, they can only admire the principle of his attempt to eliminate content and represent pure action. Again, this attempts to reconcile the shortcomings of writing as a method of documentation.