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Varypnas
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Nill Toulme
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Twiggy that is simply lovely — really really wonderful. I keep meaning to try my hand at triptychs ever since seeing a big one hanging on a wall in a store in Boston. I've done a couple, very casual, but nothing approaching this. Well done.
Nill
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Twiggy Townsend
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Aw, thanks. =)
This is the first one I tried, so I was a bit iffy about it.
This is the first one I tried, so I was a bit iffy about it.
Charlotte Thompson
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very kewl
lovely sepia blend-
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lovely sepia blend-
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Rachel Foster
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That's nothing that would ever have occurred to me to shoot. Nice!
Gary Ayala
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Hey, All roads lead to Rome ... I like it.
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Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Twiggy,
I woke up from a long sleep to find your new photography. What a surprise! This is a very mature concept and well executed. It presents itself as a serene sepia-toned triptych study of walkways in gardens or parks. The design is made up of 3 routes, not connected and appearing to start from the before the foreground. So the observer has to make up his/her mind as to how to go on from this point. It attracts attention, holds our interest and draws us into it's worlds.
© Twiggy, 2008 "Varypnas*"
Yes, it holds the metaphor "Life as a Journey!! At least you are consistent! Pathways again, the hallmark of your thoughts, and so it should be. This mental figure of expression cannot be overused as it is the most important scheme along which our long term thoughts are arranged.
Now, you have added choice! That's a fundamental necessity at all stages in our growth. Here you present yourself and now each of us, with 3 entirely different choices but the correct one is hardly obvious. Those are the real-life decisions we might have to make. Anyone can choose correctly between an ice cream and a week in jail! Deciding between what, on superficial examination, are closely similar options, is the most difficult. In life, we often have to decide between two likely disappointing options or make one of two choices, even decide which of several treasured ideas, loyalties, or things have to be abandoned, "Sophie's Choice".
Here, in your simple triptych, we can discern differences; but are they clues? Alternatively do we just recognize merely superficial details of no consequence to how we'd end up? The first is a well maintained pathway gently curving first away from us and then back towards the center in the distance. The central way seems to have a more direct route but it's shabby and unkempt! That last one is broader, less restricted, curves off the the right but in the end moves back towards the same region in the far distance. This type of complex image does not help us provide easy answers or even any answer at all. Instead, it allows the observer to bring his/her own troubles, needs, hopes and dreams to explore things. This special nature of some forms of art brings the work to a much higher level. No longer is it a "message" transmitted by the artist-photographer. Sure we receive the images of the subjects as beautifully presented, but that's not really what we get. We receive something much more which transcends the particular facets of this picture. So what is it that we receive?
I posit that we are given a gymnasium for our minds to exercise, stretch and re-calibrate whatever we wish to put to the test. That, Twiggy, is why I called this work mature and well executed. Congratulations. I like what you have done.
Asher
* In Greece and Cyprus, it is believed that sleep paralysis occurs when a ghost-like creature or Demon named Mora, Vrahnas or Varypnas (Greek: Μόρα, Βραχνάς, Βαρυπνάς) tries to steal the victim's speech or sits on the victim's chest causing asphyxiation. Wikipedia
I woke up from a long sleep to find your new photography. What a surprise! This is a very mature concept and well executed. It presents itself as a serene sepia-toned triptych study of walkways in gardens or parks. The design is made up of 3 routes, not connected and appearing to start from the before the foreground. So the observer has to make up his/her mind as to how to go on from this point. It attracts attention, holds our interest and draws us into it's worlds.
© Twiggy, 2008 "Varypnas*"
Yes, it holds the metaphor "Life as a Journey!! At least you are consistent! Pathways again, the hallmark of your thoughts, and so it should be. This mental figure of expression cannot be overused as it is the most important scheme along which our long term thoughts are arranged.
Now, you have added choice! That's a fundamental necessity at all stages in our growth. Here you present yourself and now each of us, with 3 entirely different choices but the correct one is hardly obvious. Those are the real-life decisions we might have to make. Anyone can choose correctly between an ice cream and a week in jail! Deciding between what, on superficial examination, are closely similar options, is the most difficult. In life, we often have to decide between two likely disappointing options or make one of two choices, even decide which of several treasured ideas, loyalties, or things have to be abandoned, "Sophie's Choice".
Here, in your simple triptych, we can discern differences; but are they clues? Alternatively do we just recognize merely superficial details of no consequence to how we'd end up? The first is a well maintained pathway gently curving first away from us and then back towards the center in the distance. The central way seems to have a more direct route but it's shabby and unkempt! That last one is broader, less restricted, curves off the the right but in the end moves back towards the same region in the far distance. This type of complex image does not help us provide easy answers or even any answer at all. Instead, it allows the observer to bring his/her own troubles, needs, hopes and dreams to explore things. This special nature of some forms of art brings the work to a much higher level. No longer is it a "message" transmitted by the artist-photographer. Sure we receive the images of the subjects as beautifully presented, but that's not really what we get. We receive something much more which transcends the particular facets of this picture. So what is it that we receive?
I posit that we are given a gymnasium for our minds to exercise, stretch and re-calibrate whatever we wish to put to the test. That, Twiggy, is why I called this work mature and well executed. Congratulations. I like what you have done.
Asher
* In Greece and Cyprus, it is believed that sleep paralysis occurs when a ghost-like creature or Demon named Mora, Vrahnas or Varypnas (Greek: Μόρα, Βραχνάς, Βαρυπνάς) tries to steal the victim's speech or sits on the victim's chest causing asphyxiation. Wikipedia
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Gary Ayala
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What he said ^
Nill Toulme
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Wow, Asher, now I like it even more! ;-)
Nill
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Twiggy Townsend
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Thank you everyone. =)
And thank you, Asher. You're making me see these photos from a different perspective. And I like that.
I guess I have a thing for paths. Maybe it's subconsciously psychological and has something to do with that phrase, "Life is a journey". I'm curious, and I always want to know where it's going to take me.
Glad to make you think. =) And thank you for making me think.
(And yup, that's exactly where I got the title from. The tone of these photos all remind me of some kind of nightmare, but just naming it "Nightmare" would be been too boring. ;D)
And thank you, Asher. You're making me see these photos from a different perspective. And I like that.
I guess I have a thing for paths. Maybe it's subconsciously psychological and has something to do with that phrase, "Life is a journey". I'm curious, and I always want to know where it's going to take me.
Glad to make you think. =) And thank you for making me think.
(And yup, that's exactly where I got the title from. The tone of these photos all remind me of some kind of nightmare, but just naming it "Nightmare" would be been too boring. ;D)
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Twiggy's picture brings no message rather it provides us a milieu where we can wander and test ideas that are pressing to us. That's why I coin this "a gymnasium for the mind".
Asher