Thanks a lot, Phil, for your comments! I see what you mean about the sense of loneliness suggested by the divided panels and the girl trapped in one of them. I guess its one of our conditions from the moment we are born - one we have to deal with and try to control. I also like your idea about possibly concentrating meaning by cropping off the non-essential. I tried to crop it in the "next" picture. Please turn page!
Just found this shot, Lisbeth. It is quite thought provoking. I agree with Marisa's analysis -- she always sees things in images that enlighten me. I also see something else here -- the missing. There are six vertical panels in the window, and only is filled. It gives me a sense of loneliness, yet the woman seems confident in her body language. She strides through life on her own, and the huge white panel on the opposite wall is the blank slate she will eventually inscribe her life upon. I get the feeling she will handle it well. One suggestion: try cropping the image to the beginning of the window frame at left and see how you like it. By taking out that sliver of reality on the left edge of the present picture, you reduce the image to two major elements -- window and wall, instead of three. Less can be more.
At first I was mostly focused on the missing coherence of wall and shadows in the picture - and our condition of never beeing allowed to understand. I really thank you for your comment, Marisa, you have shown a new direction of the picture - giving a lot more positive meaning of "that odd wall".
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13-Sep-2005 13:17
I've come back many times to look at this picture... it's a very interesting one because there's a kind of mirage here. The white empty wall of the right meets the 'mirror' one, full of reflections and with a human being there that seems to be suspended in time, waiting... What are we looking at?The white 'tabula rasa' is -for me- an expression of a pure and still undeveloped soul while the mirror wall is the representation of all the illusions of the life. The human is still there, trapped in that 'jail', but wondering... maybe about which way to follow?
Great concept and composition, Lisbeth! I really like it :-))
