Cedric MASSOULIER
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Dead water
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Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Cedric, mon ami, je vous remerci mille fois pour cette image.
I now know you have been working in the past few weeks that you were absent! We heard little from you after your last series.
This picture is remarkable in it's simplicity and boldness. The inverted building is, unlike the image shown by Cem of the reflections in the canal, is literal upside down, and has little if any alteration by the wayer. It's as if time has stopped and there is no reaction of one element, the building, to the other, the water. Life has, it seems stopped.
In the water we have the detritus of life, a piece of wood that is used for building our homes and then a bottle from liquor used to relieve our anxiety and dampen our inhibitions to disclosure. The grass too is off another time, overgrown and dried out. Finally, the garden, the sky of the picture, is abandoned meaning hope is gone from this place.
I like the coherence of this image. The composition, an inverted V of the building and the rising band of old grass matched by a pyramid of dry grass at the bottom left. The eye is pulled in from the lower left, ascends in the rising strip of water and then after reaching a peak descends to show us the floating bottle and wood.
I stick my neck out to declare this as exceptional. This is not a snapshot to be ignored after an initial glance. It's not a memento. Rather it's an attempt a social commentary. It provides no answers but perhaps reminds us against vanity.
Asher
I now know you have been working in the past few weeks that you were absent! We heard little from you after your last series.
This picture is remarkable in it's simplicity and boldness. The inverted building is, unlike the image shown by Cem of the reflections in the canal, is literal upside down, and has little if any alteration by the wayer. It's as if time has stopped and there is no reaction of one element, the building, to the other, the water. Life has, it seems stopped.
In the water we have the detritus of life, a piece of wood that is used for building our homes and then a bottle from liquor used to relieve our anxiety and dampen our inhibitions to disclosure. The grass too is off another time, overgrown and dried out. Finally, the garden, the sky of the picture, is abandoned meaning hope is gone from this place.
I like the coherence of this image. The composition, an inverted V of the building and the rising band of old grass matched by a pyramid of dry grass at the bottom left. The eye is pulled in from the lower left, ascends in the rising strip of water and then after reaching a peak descends to show us the floating bottle and wood.
I stick my neck out to declare this as exceptional. This is not a snapshot to be ignored after an initial glance. It's not a memento. Rather it's an attempt a social commentary. It provides no answers but perhaps reminds us against vanity.
Asher
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Ken Tanaka
pro member
It's a very nice image, Cedric. But I think it's far more interesting, and far less conventional, this way:
It challenges the eye to SEE. Even when you think you know what you're seeing you're not really sure, are you?
It challenges the eye to SEE. Even when you think you know what you're seeing you're not really sure, are you?
Cedric MASSOULIER
New member
Hi Ken,
Indeed, your proposal has a stronger visual effect but sense is weaker, as bottle of liquor has less presence. I prefer to keep the building inverted ;o)
Asher,
Thanks a lot for your comment, i'm glad to see you were able to read what i wanted to express in my picture.
Regards,
Cedric.
Indeed, your proposal has a stronger visual effect but sense is weaker, as bottle of liquor has less presence. I prefer to keep the building inverted ;o)
Asher,
Thanks a lot for your comment, i'm glad to see you were able to read what i wanted to express in my picture.
Regards,
Cedric.
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Ken,It's a very nice image, Cedric. But I think it's far more interesting, and far less conventional, this way:
It challenges the eye to SEE. Even when you think you know what you're seeing you're not really sure, are you?
I enjoy the strong positions you take.
Here, turning things upside down provides a provocative posture. It's as if we view life from a mole's burrow underground. That would take us much further down the road of failure, as we have given up the the crust of civilization covering the planet.
Then what would the bottle and wood mean?
Still, would you want the bottle and wood to be enhanced a tad, so that they become immediate, imminent issues to evaluate, not just judged in a second glance, later?
Asher