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27-May-2005 23:11
This other photo, the one of the Louvre and it's pyramid, I love this kind of clash of forms
First of all in the background there is this building with sculptures as a neoclassic building and some round forms, warm colors, etc.
And just crossed in diagonal, as a sharp blade of a knife we have this metal and cristal structure all of it thoug with the reflections of the building enfront that tells us that both of the structures, though seemengly with no connection have a common point, something to doo with echother
This is an utterly brilliant image, Ruthie, because of the way you have abstracted the past into the present and the present into the past. It is a magical photograph, a kaleidoscopic melange of windows real and imagined, old and new, rightside up and upside down. You suck the eye in and spin it around and then thrust it through the Louvre itself, a building you make into a hollow shell by reflecting the sky back it us in layer after layer of this image. You have given us, as Ana so eloquently points out, a comment on the duality of life divided between reality and fantasy. It is also a discourse on the revolving door of time itself. And that is what Paris is -- it is a time machine, where the past and the future collide with today. And this from a woman who will not even look at a watch!!!!!! I am stunned, amazed, and thrilled by what you give us here, Ruthie. Can there be a more resonant image of Paris than this?
This one is very beautiful! I love the way that strong diagonal crosses the image in half and leaves on the top, the real world with the exquisite architectural details and on the bottom part the dream one, with the wonderfully captured reflections. The way you composed the photo is amazing and it realtes to the duality of life itself, the way we are always divided between our dreams and reality...
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