If I have a passion for it (or addiction), I'm a died-in-the-wool deconstructivist.
I first approach it as a whole. Then, each time I revisit it, I'm focusing on some individual component(s) that wiggle out of, or through the field and grab my attention. Then I look for the relationships between/among those cool bits and and the whole and assess if they enhance or detract from the overall intent.
Same for painting, sculpture, design, architecture, prose, film...
This may sound quite mechanical and dispassionate. However, the passion always came first, then the knowledge, then a better understanding, then true appreciation, more wonder, more happy endings.
God, I am a pedant.
And I am sooooo not alone here.
