Something that really strikes me about this picture is the fact that the carved figure resembles some kind of religious authority that represent the essence of faith, believe without facts... And the Sputnik-like building is the epytome of science achievement mostly based on contrasted facts. The difference in size and the serious look in the figure's face is telling us how close, still today, religion is keeping an eye on science and is like warning the scientist to watch carefully what they do...
****What is so fascinating about this image is that with only one month of photography under your belt, Jen, you knew enough to avoid making just another a literal image of a Vancouver landmark, and instead emphasized a powerfully abstract carved figure and use the famous landmark as your context, instead of your subject. It usually takes amateur photographers a few years to reach such a point, and you reached it in one month. This picture is rich in abstraction, incongruity and human values --the carving is larger than than the building and that is a scale incongruity. The figure is abstracted by your frame -- you show only enough of it to stress meaning and no more. The human value of course is the nature of human experience -- the figure represents the past, the building the future. You contrast the two, to speak of how far we have come and where we may yet go.
