Wolfgang Plattner
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vanishing leaf swimming in a waterfilled bowl above a stone formed like an egg...
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Asher Kelman
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Wolfgang Plattner: “Vanishing (memento Mori)”
Wolfgang,
I’ve been pondering since 3:00 am this very unusual composition of natural elements of our fragile planet:
a skeletonized leaf floating over a smooth ~ granite pebble in a cavity of stone!
....and then the memorable phrase in the title, “Memento Mori”!
The elements are not arranged to leverage the life-giving energy of light, but layered, reminiscent of strata recording geological history, itself!
In a way, this picture is a reminder of man’s infinitely small presence in time on earth. This, despite his power to love, reproduce and have offspring, is a speck in earth-time. Man is limited by his need for gratification at all cost, right now! This type of selfish life is by nature Gomperzian.
We are bound to destroy even ourselves and create merely another layer of detritus and ashes to mark the age when hominids dominated the planet!
AsherPeter Dexter
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Apart from the stem the leaf looks like a fossil impression.
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Wolfgang Plattner
Well-known member
Hi
Thanks Asher für your words...you got it,
Dexter, thankyou for your idea, I will refer to that in some postprocessing ...
Thanks Asher für your words...you got it,
Dexter, thankyou for your idea, I will refer to that in some postprocessing ...
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Glad I got it right, Wolfgang!
It was amazing to see this, demanding of us, “humility” and at the same seeing a new email inviting me to submit a public art sculpture to go up in Venice in 2020, stoking my very mortal “vanity”!
Asher