Traveler Through Time

Welcome, Juan, your visit and comment mean a lot to me, thank you!

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Ben detto mio carissimo amico! Mille grazie per la tua visita!

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Very logical and compatible, Jamie! Thank you for your for me mysterious comment!

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Thank you, Tina! That's what I want to hear!

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Thank you Tony, short and top compliment!

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Thank you, John! Your comment is telling a lot as always!

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I don't know what to say that hasn't been said already - your work is quite popular, for good reason!

So I will just say that this image has the type of haunting attraction that makes you come view it again after you have already seen it and clicked away.

That's what I call a success, so congrats to you on that my friend.

Lastly, humble thanks for your kind words and actions around my own photo this week. Best regards always sir!

Welcome, Patrick and thank you for your flattering comment! Flattering in good connotation, of course! Sir!

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Thank you for your attention, dear colleagues!

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Excellend and creative composition!

Pierre;thank you very much!

Janusz.

Thank you, Janusz! I am happy to see you again on my pages!

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Very creative image and the title well found. The red window background adds to it. Excellent work Pierre...as usual!

Best Regards

Patrick

Welcome, Patrick and thank you for your encouraging critique!

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Hello Pierre,

for this one, I don't "enter in" your picture. I like the idea, the fact of repeating the man for viewing the notion of "through the time". But I don't see where and/or why he is a "Traveler". The man is in a static position, arms crossed, waiting for an advice or a reaction. He seems for me to be more spectator than actor of his life.

Sorry, it's not clear for me.

Welcome, Benoit and thank you for your visit and thorough observation of the picture! We don't need to move to travel through time, whatever we do we do travel! Second, the hand made environment I thought looks like an old train compartment!

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Pierre,

you're right. We can travel in one's head. I don't see that in his glance, sorry.

Thanks for your explanation about the door of an old train. I was away of that !

Aha . . . what we have here is an infinite regress.  This man is not simply looking at a mirror, with another mirror facing it.  He actually is physically present infinitely through time.  

Interesting . . . Western philosophers (Thomas Aquinas among others) have insisted that an infinite regress is intellectually disastrous, and used this to prove the existence of God.  From this point of view, God is posited as the "first cause," the cause of everything else, the really big bang.  

Your photograph appears to stand in opposition to this sort of logic.  Oops . . . western logic is linear (for the most part).  The time traveler is able of existing in the same place but in multiple times because the method of his travel is nonlinear.  So, there is no refuting the theory underlying the image based on the unacceptability of an infinite regress.

Sounds good, right?  Even if everything I said is found to be sheer nonsense, the image still is based on a fascinating concept.  Your framing of the subject is spot on, and the glaring red is perfect.

My best always,

michael

I would simplify the whole matter! Without relative moving we all pass through time or if you want time is passing! So, even unwillingly we are traveling through time without moving from our aspect of view, from the common and prosaic, if you want ignorant view! The motion is absolute, everything is moving and everything is traveling through time. This guy is sitting still in his train compartment, but the train is moving with a certain speed and that's where time is showing for speed and time always go together! Regress and progress are only human invention, there is always progress, never regress. This man will one day die, no chance for him to become younger or to reborn as he is or was when he was first born, therefore he is progressing to his death because motion is relative for him, in the absolute motion he is doomed to die, no matter whether sitting in the train or running with his body! And time and progress are precisely determined, our actions and their result included! Even afterlife is a result of the time passing, traveling through time and if there is such thing as reincarnation, dying and being born it's also progress and result of traveling through time because nobody is being reborn in the same circumstances and equal as he was in the previous reborn! In other words, time is merciless, never stop moving, existing and never regressing!

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Great symbolism in this creation. Wonderful presentation of how you see aging, excellent choice of the wooden frame as well as its color and finally, lovely mood. Poštovanje na neiscrpnoj inventivnosti i originalnosti uz besprekorno vladanje PS-om. 

Hvala, Pantelicu, takve komentare volim! Pronicljive i pohvalne!

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Wonderful!!

Thank you, Alberto!

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Hi Pierre, in this image we can travel to the past, present or future, or vice versa. If we go to the past we need to open  so many doors indicate by the handles, and coming back to the present we can project to the future by passing through all this doors, just to discover that times were, are, and will be always the same ; why? The red color allow us to see that men have always been in combats, wars and rumors of wars and the serious expression of the  traveler or his concern  let us arrive  to this conclusion. Also, I can add that the traveler may be thinking what men need to do in order to live in peace, and put an end to all blood that have been shed in human history.

Pierre your images, always make me think, and even though you wrote in a comment that the man is aging, this image as an expression of art may have others point of view.

Warmest regard,

LuDa

Hey, Luisa, already back from Miami beach?

Thank you your thorough observation and elaboration of the possible meanings of this picture!

The guy is a high school teacher of music,but yes, he has a harsh past!

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I think I saw it before. However, I just want to say I appreciate your works very much.  Love your works.  Best Regards,