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Patricia Lay-Dorsey | all galleries >> my photo-a-day archives >> 2007 photo-a-day galleries >> photo-a-day December 2007 > Duality #9
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20-DEC-2007

Duality #9

I have just added two new images to my Dualities Gallery. CLICK HERE to see the entire series.

The responses I've received both publicly and privately to this Dualities series are telling me that it is doing what I'd hoped, and that is encouraging viewers see things in new ways. Each viewer not only has unique emotional responses to an image but often comes up with their own ideas about what that image means. To my mind, that is what art is all about. Let me share with you two responses I've received thus far:

Ai Li (http://www.pbase.com/limaili/profile) says, "A photograph often offers the photographer a gift she doesn't expect, what the eye longing for meaning sees unconsciously, and includes. Good photographs not only compel our interest, they're sometimes disturbing, inevitably reminding us of what we've overlooked. They manifest themselves in the mind of the viewer and the meanings associated to them can be entirely different and detached from the original intentions of the photographer, to the point where the viewer turns into an interpreter and offers a completely different reading of the photograph. This process frees the inexhaustible and evocative power of the photography."

Offer Goldfarb (http://www.pbase.com/offerg/profile) sent me an email that I asked him to post as a comment. CLICK HERE to read it.

My creative process is much enhanced when you share your thoughts and feelings with me. Thank you for doing so.


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Latifa Messaoudi27-Dec-2007 07:11
nice ideaa!
Dave Wyman21-Dec-2007 07:19
Amazing. For me this photograph represents the essence of artistic photography.
Guest 20-Dec-2007 21:09
I just like this..v
giselle borgwardt20-Dec-2007 19:44
Like comparison and symbolism.
:-)
H2M20-Dec-2007 18:45
Yes. A brilliant one! V!
an nguyen20-Dec-2007 14:53
This duality is simple exquisite. One blends in the other seemlessly and harmoniously. V
CM Kwan20-Dec-2007 13:50
These two pictures make me think about "fixed" and "free". We, human being, have the freedom to see whatever we want to see, go wherever we want to go. On the other hand, those poles were fixed in a location and might be used to limit freedom of animals.

Very well done, Pat! V
Guest 20-Dec-2007 10:46
This is getting good. How thoughtful! V
Ann...20-Dec-2007 09:40
Even the turn of their heads matches the lean of the posts!!! Great work!!
Chris Sofopoulos20-Dec-2007 07:50
I like the juxtaposition to both photos.
Very nice work Patricia! v
Paco López20-Dec-2007 07:15
Great again!!!!!!!! Big vote!
12320-Dec-2007 06:55
Indeed very clever. I had a giggle just looking at it. V
Yves Rubin20-Dec-2007 05:25
Oh, I love this!!! So clever and fun. Big vote!
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