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RE: Original Art Photography Series by @velimir #470 'A Road To Somewhere'

in #photography6 years ago

I was very attracted to this photo, @velimir. Personally, I like specular games, those reduplications, called in semiotics "mise en abîme" ("put in abyss"), which, as you know, is in the mechanism of the Chinese boxes, in the Russian dolls. Perhaps that is one reason why I am fascinated by the works of Magritte and Escher.

The photo plays precisely with that specular reproduction, which confuses us, makes us doubt between reality and its reflection. Seen with care, I observe the work (photograph with the child) in the work (the one that contains the picture with that photograph), but, in addition, as in "Las meninas" by Velásquez, there is the picture of your photograph where the two previous ones are framed. They contribute to that visual game that you emphasize, effectively, the tenuous homologous colors (beiges) and the thick dark lines - brown - (that of the frames); and that game is completed with the "imaginary reality" of photograph 1 (that of the child), where the environment is dark, giving it certain depth. It seems to me that the child, if my eyes do not deceive me, is in a kind of parking lot (a "non-place", as Marc Augé calls them), and that sense, the idea expressed in the title would gain strength. That darkness would act as a vanishing point, in an indeterminate space. That he is a child with his teddy bear on his shoulder liberates the interpretations, because he is a being open to the world and life to do.

Excellent photo! Thank you for sharing it. Greetings.

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