This shot is the Male translating of that galery what she made...U made your photo in a very similary way as she did,but still its completely different with that srong blue and with the grain.....Its very masculine,and Ana's galery was the completely feminin way of showing this feeling.....So u guys both made a pretty cool work:)!...The photos fit together!...
Well Kal I am thrilled that you were inspired by my insomnia gallery :-) and came up with this shot, so much abstract than mine, but which is nevertheless very powerful. The pp work that distorted both the light and the body really gives us the strong feeling of hopelessness that overcomes us whenever we cannot sleep. The way you've positioned yourself on the bed talks clearly of that struggle. The blue, because it's known as a "calm" and "relaxing" colour also helps to convey meaning to your image.
Personaly, I like the cartoon like feeling we also get from this image, because well, life can be just like a comic book sometimes.
Congratulations Kal.
I am glad you were inspired by Ana. She has inspired a lot of people recently with her work and her spectacular rise to expression. You make a marvelous point here, Kal. Form and content must work seamlessly to achieve expression. Form, for its own sake, may stimulate us aesthetically, but often falls short of energizing the imagination and enriching us intellectually. Take, for example, the work of Ana's brilliant young friend Agnes Csernova in her four image "there and back" gallery athttp://www.pbase.com/csernovaagnes/there__back. The opening image, "in blue" relies primarily on form to express its idea. The next two images are descriptive abstracts that carry her point forward. All three of these images are, I feel, setting us up for the finale. She hits full stride expressively in her fourth final image "where will we stop?" in which she seamlessly integrates both content and form. What you have done here is very much in keeping with what Agnes has done in that final image -- expressing human values through a powerfully incongruous and abstract fusion of form and content.
It was actually Ana's work that inspired me to do something with this image. The image taken at midnight after 30 hours on a train during my trip. The expression, pure exhaustion, distortion in the mind, and all in a strange place. the image did not not work as a photograph. Content, was not complemented by the form. I used form to enhance the expression. The two must and can work together I am learning. Content first, since that is the bedrock of the photographic meaning (the human value), form to enhance that meaning. I have you to thank for that knowledge. This is experimental Phil, and I love the feeling that i have found another outlet for my expression.
More of an electronic painting than a photograph, Kal. A work of fiction, not fact. As fiction, it grabs the imagination and won't let go. The huge bump in the bed can be a person, dog, or just a bunch of clothes. You make us wonder and ponder and stay up all night worrying about it. You are right. I would call this image "Insomnia" You take an entirely different tack on it than Ana's recent gallery of the same name.
