Cem_Usakligil
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Hi Bill,
I simply love those ice pictures, fantastic!
I simply love those ice pictures, fantastic!
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Jerome may well be saying that surfaces are scalable. nope that was me!
these two works above are beautiful in there own ways - Jerome has light and rhythm that is in Tracy's but the scale is different..
each directs the viewer along different paths ... from where I am people seem to find things that confirm what they belive to be..
bill in relation to the moon - its true so some extent ... we don't have to ask and we don't mostly ... but when we do it can be fun...
Grope For Luna
thanks for the additions and thoughts
Are you saying you can't see the stone?
I guess I can only answer for myself,
I use focus to push the mind that views the image where I want it to go im my work - what i may feel is important or what I may feel is not - but the act of forcing the reader may even have some meaning - for me that is.. front / back / side is only relevent to me within the work and only gets used as an expression of what ideas I am working with.
viewing (in real terms) work is as much a physical experance as mental. when I make my work I stand / sit / move and change - my ideal work station is standing..
my ideal image size would be immersive.
opps less sense on this post ... stop it !
ok
Hi Bill,
I simply love those ice pictures, fantastic!
If you don’t mind, in your “Half.Dome.4” image, how was this made? Is this a single image or a collection that is overlaid?
I’ve been building a new series called “Snowbrook, Beneath the Surface,” and it involves the natural layering of winter.
“Snowbrook, Beneath the Surface 1”
“Snowbrook, Beneath the Surface 4”
Bill,
I'm impressed. Is that concrete or just the ice we are seeing?
Asher
What a great idea for a series, it could be endless. I particularly like the elegance of Grace Kelly, the beautiful layers and the visual barriers. Am I reading into the image because of your title? I also like the fact that your concept of "none existence" has a product. lately, for whatever reason, I find myself harping back to that old philosophical question "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" It is apparent through your concept, it does as long as people keep looking at your work (or not as the argument seemed to always revert). Very nice capture. As an aside, she and Sophia Lauren were always my favorites.
Made me remember a time when I was in Las Vegas and I got on an elevator that the comedian Bill Cosby was alone in. I reached out and shook his hand and said "I'm Bill, you probably don't remember me. . . we never met in Boston." It took him about 10 seconds before he realized we really never met. He had a good laugh and got off at the next floor.
Bill
Asher,
There is no concrete in the area. I was out walking with my three dogs (who were on long leashes and they decided to take the woods trail rather than stay out in the fields. When we got to this stream, I tied them to a tree and spent about an hour with my camera.
Since we are quite late this year in getting snow here, the stream freezes and thaws and also gets covered with water each time it rains, with the result being a multi-layered surface. I went back a couple of days ago, but the stream had a light coating of snow so nothing was visible. The weather is supposed to turn warmer later in the week, and they are predicting rain again, so I may get another opportunity.
Here is another from that same day.
Thanks for looking and commenting, and hope that you like this one.
Bill
Mark this reminds me of the famous story by Hans Christian Andersen. I am certain that there must be other lookers out there who haven't got the the slightest idea what this is all about; just like me. It isn't easy for one to admit that one doesn't get it. There I've said it. Now I'll go and hide somewhere.
Grace Kelly - M Hampton
Mark this reminds me of the famous story by Hans Christian Andersen. I am certain that there must be other lookers out there who haven't got the the slightest idea what this is all about; just like me. It isn't easy for one to admit that one doesn't get it. There I've said it. Now I'll go and hide somewhere.
Cem - you are of course correct - the work has aspects in it that do relate to a Hans Christian Andersen story The Snow Queen.
Not that story, Mark. Not that story at all.
sorry Jerome ! I will go and read some more stories and find one that may apply
But it is in the title of my post: the Emperor's New Clothes!J...I am still no closer to what Cem was referring to... its funny how when things are not directly in ones frame of reference they seem like some kind of foreign language...
Completely lost me there Cem. In what way is the work you talk about related to the story?But it is in the title of my post: the Emperor's New Clothes!
IMO, the connection is very strong. You have showed a picture of 'Grace Kelly' which has no visible or symbolic relationship to the said actress. We can take your title at face value and say that it is a good picture of Grace Kelly or we can say that it does not make any sense. I have confessed to not being an art expert by choosing the latter option.Completely lost me there Cem. In what way is the work you talk about related to the story?
I hadn't though of the connection.
Thanks for stopping my reading of all those stories
ma sisters twa heids - M Hampton
I like the juxtaposition of the two pictures. I don't think that one of them could work individually, but they work very well next to another.
IMO, the connection is very strong. You have showed a picture of 'Grace Kelly' which has no visible or symbolic relationship to the said actress. We can take your title at face value and say that it is a good picture of Grace Kelly or we can say that it does not make any sense. I have confessed to not being an art expert by choosing the latter option.
^^ Sweet! A great example of art from the ordinary and a fine use of B&W. A color rendition would not be nearly as compelling.
I'm reminded of the Beetles’ song, Fixing a hole.
What size will the print be?
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in this work it's not just the images on screen - but the grey squares in your mind that work on my subject ..
bill mentioned the tree in the forest falling and does it make a sound - well when do the grey squares exist....
^^ Sweet! A great example of art from the ordinary and a fine use of B&W. A color rendition would not be nearly as compelling.
I'm reminded of the Beetles’ song, Fixing a hole.
What size will the print be?
I agree, like it B&W. If the grid were a color other than white, the grey in our mind's eye would change and become the color compliment.
Bill
Let me offer this setting:
As I lay on my love-soaked bed
An angel came to kiss my head
I caught one gown
And wrestled her down
to be my love in death-town.
Leonard Cohen
Canadian Poet and songwriter
Asher
Tracy - thanks. its diffcult to stop your mind from wondering...
size wise at the moment i think about the size it is.. I like the way it works... it seems to have an ernrgy at this size that suits...
i like the idea of pearing into it rather than been able to fully expolre..
You’re welcome, but the word was “wandering” and not “wondering.” As in given the nature of some photos, one doesn't find them self wondering very long why it would take more than a couple of seconds before an intelligent mind starts wandering…..
If you say so, but remember that it’s not very smart make a print too small and thereby make your viewers work. People are put off when they have to strain and there little or no reward for their effort.
Pearing? Do you mean “peering” or are you perhaps attempting to make a metaphor by writing “paring.” “Peering” means to look keenly or with difficulty at someone or something. This makes sense given the context.
For the other possibility, “paring” means to peel or cut the outer section away. In the context it could be used as a metaphor that’s intended to inspire a 2nd or 3rd look so the viewer “gets it” providing, of course, there is anything to get. This would be the case alluded to in your text to describe the work.
Maybe your mind was wondering between the two concepts? <smile>
But on the topic related to paring, I'm reminded - have you tried to do one of these redundant themed works where there is a larger single subject subtly displayed among all panels?
Perhaps one of your ‘women I've never met but photographed’ could be alluded to amongst the rain drops and windowpanes………………something like Marilyn Monroe (or whomever) in tears. Just a thought………………
Anywho, again, nice work. It has an appeal to those who lean towards OCD about finding patterns.