Them.Us.Dividing our wholeness into smaller pieces.Until touching becomes seeing,imagining and longing.As differences,distances,swell even though we crave,argue, silently refuse for them not to.Until we are faceless in a crowd alone.
I think it works, Kal. It would have been descriptive if the guy in front of us was not there. But he becomes us and we become him. We are left out of "their world" and we feel that isolation. All those human beings on the other side of the street share something that we don't. They are friends, partners, business associates, hookers, whatever you want to call them. The guy in front of us is an abstraction. The incongruity comes through the tension here -- does he or doesn't he want to go across that street and join the fun? What is going through his mind. We don't know. His body is many times larger than the other people, he sits and they stands. We see them but we don't see his face. The image is full of subtle incongruities. The human values: Alienation? Envy? Indecision? Anxiety? It could be any or all of them. This image is food for the soul. Great job, Kal.
Is this too descriptive Phil? There was some abstraction and the human value of voyeurism (a popular value in China) was clear to me, some incongruity too.
