Wrapped by Ana Carloto O'Shea

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12-MAY-2005	Ana Carloto

Wrapped

May 04/2006... almost one year after I've uploaded this photo,
I've decided to bring a "normal size" version here to Pbase.
The first one was much smaller as I was just starting with
photos here and didn't feel confortable about uploding this
one full sized. But now here it is :)

Kodak DX7630
1/60s f/2.8 at 8.0mm iso100 with Flash full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto

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dennis laska		21-Jul-2009 22:53
glad you feel comfortable uploading the normal size image. it's wonderful.

Thomas		13-May-2009 17:02
You make me scared with this ;-)

Robyco		23-Jul-2007 12:04
God to upload it bigger, it is awesome !! (V)

Robyco		23-Jul-2007 12:04
God to upload it bigger, it is awesome !! (V)

Guest		12-Jan-2007 21:03
like the effect nicely done

Guest		08-Nov-2006 23:54
I like this one most of all...very interesting gallery. Which shot is the real YOU????? I wonder.......

Kasia Guess		04-Nov-2006 17:24
superb!!!

Roy Birger Nilsen		29-Sep-2006 21:04
Love this shot,it gives me an uneasy feeling because of the strange texture,the wet(?)hair clinging to you almost with a life of it`s own is very scary,but it is really a great SP with lots of emotion and very,very personal.Great work!Voted!:-)

david procter		14-Jun-2006 10:27
Very dramatic self p Ana - your hair has a life of its own, drawing snake-like streams around you.The caramel tones of the wall waiting to absorb you when the hair has finished its work. Glad you managed to escape this!

Guest		25-May-2006 14:41
Very creative..dramatic and painfully good!

PauloCGama		07-May-2006 23:52
aplausos!!

wernere01		28-Dec-2005 18:34
There is some darkness and mystery within a lot of your pictures, like in this one. A very personal creative style.

Guest		18-Oct-2005 22:37
unbeleivable what you did with that filter.

Manfred Bachmann		13-Oct-2005 18:51
Outstanding image Ana, i love it!

Guest		08-Sep-2005 14:44
Hi ana!! WOW!!! Photo like reallity. AAA!!!! Got to go. ;(( MAtej

Guest		19-Aug-2005 02:17
This is a interesting image, Nice shot~!

Kal Khogali		29-Jun-2005 08:48
You are gagged with a desperate look in your eyes that says you want to speak out. Your hair is alive, as Ruth says you are being gagged by a part of yourself. Powerful and disturbing. The wrapped hair around your neck is suffocating, it almost seems to tighten as you watch it. Simply a great image.The texture your create is what makes the hair look so 3-D and alive, and as Phil says turns it into a living candle, statuesque. Well done Ana.

Guest		15-Jun-2005 23:02
Hi Ana Well you have really come up with quite a disturbing image with this one. It look to me like you are slowing melting away soon to be molten wax forever. Great Imagination and creativity!

Marc Demoulin		10-Jun-2005 19:26
Great art Ana, very creative. RGDS Marc

Guest		08-Jun-2005 14:16
This is a wonderfully disturbing image. Your hair looks to me like the roots or even blood vessels of some terrible creature and yet it is you yourself.

scott clarke		02-Jun-2005 20:26
This one is just simply special Ana.

ruthemily		28-May-2005 09:46
a fantastic self-portrait, Ana. i love this image because you are tied up and trapped and practically gagged....by a part of yourself. the wax effect is like you are melting away...but you have made this image and you aren't going anywhere. you are there, strong and can stand firmly. this to me mainly speaks of how, no matter who or what has led us to where we are, it is only ourselves who can choose to keep ourselves there or move on. you are bound by a part of yourself here, and i think that stands for a lot more. the choices are yours...and the realisation of that is always both incredibly frustrating but also amazingly liberating. hope that makes sense! i admire and respect you for daring like you have done here. i hope we see the image size gradually increasing in pixels as you gain confidence in your beauty and your ability with a camera.

Guest		26-May-2005 17:43
oh! i was gonna say this is so successful you apply plastic wrap to a bathroom shot~ and then i read phil's comments and it came house of wax!! http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/house_of_wax/

aliusvetus		26-May-2005 05:14
Bem conseguida. Gosto bastante do aspecto conceptual da foto bem como da "plasticidade" no tratamento. Raul Costa

Ana Carloto O'Shea		14-May-2005 21:55
Thank you Phill! About the size, well even I was scared when I saw it really big... This one deals with a lot of things like you so well pointed out and it was a first step into the unknown, so I've decided to keep it small. Maybe in the future I'll be able to dare more, this was as far as I could go now :-)

Phil Douglis		14-May-2005 03:53
This image is a superb example of incongruity, abstraction and human values all tied up in the same package, Ana. You have bound and gagged yourself with your own hair and then electronically processed the image to transform the entire image into a molten plate of wax ,a living candle! A shocking and disturbing image, utterly transforming yourself from a vital human being to a captive of a dehumanized world. You took me up on my dare, Ana, and used your imagination in a way you probably have never used it before. I am in awe of your talents, and I salute you for risking and stretching as you did. My only suggestion: size your image larger -- try 1000 pixels on the wide or longest side, to bring up detail and make your shock even more shocking.

Guest		13-May-2005 19:55
looks like u are getting to be liquid here...and...your look is so different without your eyeglasses......strange.......starnge...strange.........A.

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