Hi ChunHsi, I love your creativity in coining of this word "Photo-sophical" ! Marvelous! It is the exact expression about the essence of my "conceptualization" gallery.
Chun-Hsi Huang
04-Feb-2006 18:21
The angles of view create a natural frame when we see. Camera lens only adjusts it. Wherever we see, only objects within that frame are visible. We determine the direction, size, length and width of that frame when we see; and subsequently, we apply a virtual frame while making decisions or dealing with people, based on preference, bias, concerns, appropriateness, love or hatred.
Eventually our minds are imprisoned, trapped in the dark inside of our bodies, and interact with the world only through a frame. It is this frame that imprisons the subject, who appears helpless since her imprisonment results from our confined hearts.
The picture tells us to open our mind, and interact with the world from our heart, not via a frame.
The picture stands out in its unique "photo-sophical" way.
Her body language implies a desire to be free. Her dress falls from her body as she comes towards us, eyes empty and blind. Her coloration separates her from the stone walls and other prisoners. But she can't break the boundaries of your frame and never will, because the image has frozen her in time. You have stimulated my imagination to think these thoughts with this image, Xin -- the incongruity of the coloration and your wonderful use of frame makes it work.
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