thank you, Mikel! i'm glad i could get you thinking!! ;)
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27-May-2005 21:25
This picture has it's point. It is a incongruity all by its self. Who is there who is not there? at first I even thought that they were mirrors untill I realized that the reflexions of the two people were not there, then I even though that perhaps you did something with photoshop since I saw the light and it comes from the same direction and could be perfectly part of the same photo manipulated... It realy had me thinking for a while and untill I read the caption. Real good picture. :))
yes, i think i have echoed the artist's intentions. it is strange. the only part of "reality" that isn't art you see here is indeed the two women centre and right in the foreground. everything else is the other artist's photograph of the people playing chess in the park and walking etc. what is even stranger, is that if you removed the art display, that is the scene you would see anyway. this was hung at the front of a verandah type thing like that and there is a path into the trees behind it.
When I first looked at this image, without reading your caption, I was completely fooled by it. I just thought it as an awful mistake, a momentary lapse, a mangled snapshot of some kind. But then I read your caption, acquired a context and looked again. By including two real people walking into the middle of a faux restaurant/art exhibit, you create an image of life imitating art as art imitates life. Very clever, indeed. My guess is that the two women in the right foreground are the real people. Everything else is illusion. Just as the artist asks us to consider the nature of reality, Ruthie comes along and incongruously takes this art one step further.
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24-May-2005 21:52
Cleverly done. Really like this.
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