Immortality.Consider it.To be cast with a permanent presence among the tide of ages.While other lives precipitate as fleeting raindrops.Wetting the steps of a generation in brief contemplation or concern.Then evaporating into nothing.Would our sole humainty still move with the same heartbeat? Feeling similar thoughts.Even though it would be one long daydream instead of a flowing multitude of imaginings among a conciousness of many.To be alone more than any other?
This is one of the strongest expressions you have made, Kal. It is light years beyond the telephoto version in that it makes use of the space between the statues and the woman to tell a story, whereas the telephoto version did not. The sharper focus on the bronze couple is far more expressive than the soft focus version was, in that it defines the bond between the bronzes, whereas the telephoto version did not. Your own comment is well taken -- there is a critical interaction between the bronze man and woman, and there is also a relationship to be made between the real woman and the sculptures. In fact, I get the feeling that the real woman may someday become the bronze lady, dependent, and perhaps mourning the lost youth you mention (which she no doubt wasted on the telephone.)
The more we look at this image, the food for thought you have given us. You make brilliant use of layered space, foreground emphasis, rhythm and scale incongruity -- as well as subject incongruity -- to make it express its human values. One of your biggest challenges has been to simplify your images, and make everything in them work to express the idea at hand. And that is exactly what you do here, Kal.
This is one of the strongest expressions you have made, Kal. It is light years beyond the telephoto version in that it makes use of the space between the statues and the woman to tell a story, whereas the telephoto version did not. The sharper focus on the bronze couple is far more expressive than the soft focus version was, in that it defines the bond between the bronzes, whereas the telephoto version did not. Your own comment is well taken -- there is a critical interaction between the bronze man and woman, and there is also a relationship to be made between the real woman and the sculptures. In fact, I get the feeling that the real woman may someday become the bronze lady, dependent, and perhaps mourning the lost youth you mention (which she no doubt wasted on the telephone.)
The more we look at this image, the food for thought you have given us. You make brilliant use of layered space, foreground emphasis, rhythm and scale incongruity -- as well as subject incongruity -- to make it express its human values. One of your biggest challenges has been to simplify your images, and make everything in them work to express the idea at hand. And that is exactly what you do here, Kal.
For the human woman and the statue man the posture is the same, but the context is totally incongruent and opposite. One has a partner, and the other does not. Is she mourning the loss of love, or yearning for finding it and is he mourning his lost years of youth in his relationship, or wallowing in his romantic moment? This was the ultimate in perspective (mental) contradiction to me. Depending on how you look at it, either they are thinking the same things or opposites, yet their exporessions and body language are the same. It depends on what you want them to be thinking....
