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shanghai window

Sometimes things are so bad you just want to break the line



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Phil Douglis22-Oct-2005 19:56
Thanks for the remarkable context, Kal. Just knowing those are plastic bags acting as a curtain changes everything for me. (That was not apparent to me -- it was to you because you saw those bags with your own eyes. So context here becomes all, doesn't it?) I still wish someone had been peering at us from the darkness beyond those slats. If only that curtain showed up as plastic bags. Color perhaps? And from there, we move on the metaphorical level regarding rebellion. But we can't go there until we are able to read the elements of this images as you intend them to be read.
Kal Khogali22-Oct-2005 04:35
Yes there is an attempt at expression here Phil. On the right is a curtain, in this case made of plastic shopping bags. A person would have been great, wouldn't it? I am not sure that without the bags it would be the same though, and actually believe the bag is important content. The bag/curtain is the symbol of inhabitance...someone is living here, in a place with windows that look like they come from the 19th century... this is Shanghai today, without the bag curtain it would just be an abandoned window. I wanted to express the idea that rebellion as defined by Alem in his gallery (that is the metaphor he is aiming at), should exist here too. Because when things are bad, that is when you want to do it. Hence the link. The broken line/graphjic is only part of the story. Just to add that in Alems's gallery the broken line is a choice, but here, there is no choice in the broken line, it is the best that they can do.
Phil Douglis22-Oct-2005 00:46
I see why you've posted this, Kal --as kind of a dialogue with another photographers work. This is a response to a gallery based on lines. However, since you put it in this gallery, I assume you also are trying to express an idea here. I wish this image had an abstracted, dim figure peering out at us on the right, instead of what appears to be an old curtain. I love the rough textures, the makeshift quality of the slats themselves, but adding a touch of human values (suspicion, curiosity, etc.) from an abstracted person would have deepened the image and moved it from an excellent exercise in form to an expression in content.
Guest 22-Oct-2005 00:27
You're really good at ping pong, eh? ;-)
Strong image.
I like the fact that it is in the same time graphic and disturbing.
Guest 21-Oct-2005 23:41
;-))))))) great, great and great....

this is getting crazy....
no need to comment the picture... you know already.

alem
Guest 21-Oct-2005 19:11
yes... break the line.
excellent.
ciao
Andrea
Adalberto Tiburzi21-Oct-2005 16:41
Excellent!
PS
Love this surreptitious ping pong ;-)
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