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I'm a sucker for blurry motion shots that forward a kind of impressionistic mode of "observing the everyday". And this shot is a high-class version, without a doubt. Your whole portfolio aims high and succeeds. But just now I am wondering if I haven't bought into an "art for art's sake" sensibility.

 

In college (late 60's) I held forth in pubs that Thomas Merton was full of shit when he said "all art caves in upon itself" because I felt that art was a mirror on our true spiritual nature, suppressed and confused as it might be.

 

But in these corruptible times I wonder if maybe some of it does cave in, pointing back only to the dissolution of matter and time. And an image that forces a subjective response from the viewer (such as yours) evokes only their occlusion--the system of their hell--without any liberating recognition.

 

This is not a criticism of your fine image. It just provoked some thought. I apologize for going on if it seems off topic.

Peter, if my sketchy Digital Diary snap provoked some thoughts in you, I'm more than happy. Art is a very heavy category to cast on what I collect along my ways, IMHO. I'm after visuals that would stop me --and you-- and make us look twice for a mix of both, beauty and truth. You may call that art. I'd just call it a subjective mirror of what strikes my attention, curiosity, visual sensitivity.

Thanks for stopping by and taking your time to share your thoughts!

Feel free to download my recent desktop version:

In some quarters art has been made to seem a ponderous subject with immensely complicated convolutions, ramifications and nuances and can only be addressed via an arcane coda that only a secret member of the art priesthood can interpret to the masses. But your photo blows all that out of the water. Art is basic, simple, true. But getting there takes a lot of discipline, talent and technique and what I'd call (for want of a better term) a "fullness of viewpoint."

 

Which is exactly what makes you and I stop and take another look at your image.

 

As a note, I prefer the posted version to the desktop version.