the contents of an artwork, can be viewed as several components of one machine : each one gives a hint of the machines entire operation, thus we can begin to deconstruct it and understand how the artwork operates
 
we can look upon each component in several ways, the first - inevitably is what the component looks like, this gives us a bearing as to the aesthetic function of the whole. The second challenges us, for we are already influenced by the first and must carry the experience with us, choosing to accept the influence or force ourselves to overlook it
 
the second reading could aim to understand the artists intentions, for the intentions of the artist and the aesthetic result are not always inexorably tied.

further readings open the artwork up further, and then once we begin to consider the site, the works placement, the material employed, the history of the particular approach and the social climate in which the work is made, the act of looking becomes dwarfed by the more problematic and complicated act of reading