december - cold cuts Ancient Mysteries II

Jack, this is just an abstract image to enjoy the forms, the textures and low color variations.   I do see a smiley face with blackened ears probably from parental indiscretions. 

From thumbnail I see me too s Tony says a smile face,you are a very good observer indeed to see in a so simple subject a very good possibility for a shot,this pattern,texture create the image,like it.

I like the subtle colors, and the combination of organic shapes with the geometric circle and parabola.  I immediately see a puzzle involving the determination of the order of events - which patch or cut came before or after another.

It's curious how we see faces, or at least eyes, in inanimate things like this.  I've commented before on this behavior.  In looking through your portfolio, you have at least ten other examples of such faces, whether human or animal or alien, with two eyes, or just one, or even four.  Our ability to see eyes in so many places is amazing.

This a very nice form and it reallyl looks like layers of past time The different colors ,the round form with the two "eyes" with a sideway direction like looking what is going on in the "future " ...;-)) it reminds the pyramids,... and you are a master of titles !

Thanks a lot for your attention and comments.

 

I'm constantly about ten months behind in processing my pictures; this one is from last February. Even though I kind of remember the circumstances of the shoot, enough time has passed that I can achieve some separation from my own work. It's as interesting for me as anyone else to see what was catching my attention ten months ago. This particular photo was accompanied by several similar ones taken at the same time that I found interesting. There are stretches when everything looks so ordinary that I feel as if I had been wandering around on Prozac or something and other times when nearly everything is sharp and calls out to be photographed. Psychologically, I find this fascinating. It's as if the pictures aren't really out there at all but are beckoned forth by some internal process..

 

Tony, Radu and Mark all commented on the anthropomorphic qualities of the figure. Man is the animal that projects himself outward so this is certainly understandable. We tend to recognize what we know and somehow incorporate the unknowable into our established world view. I've been giving this some thought lately. We live in a vast and overwhelming world. To me the real artist is one who can step outside the comfortable ring of firelight and venture into the surrounding darkness where things have no names, they just are.

 

Sorry to go on and on like this. I tend to use images as springboards for the latest wandering bits of psychology that find their way into my head though they may be germane to nothing at all.

 

Finally, Pnina, nice to see you back commenting. I hope you'll be posting your work regularly again. You've been sorely missed along with so many of my old friends from the glory days of pn.

Beautiful abstract, Jack. This is art!

Like in another world and yes, it is your world Jack! I would recognize you on it from a mile distance!

 

Best regards

 

PDE

Paul Klee would be proud!

Thanks for taking the time to comment on this picture. Yeah, Pierre, I guess this is a "Jack" shot as my friend Yukihiro always reminds me. I don't know, I guess it's just the way I see things. I think Marco could relate to that. Thanks, Fred, for the reference to Paul Klee who has always been among my favorite artists. We can't help but be influenced by the people we admire.

Well done!

Regards,

Mário