Dust Exaltation

Please comment, thank you!

claude, very dramatic, has a real impact and the rendering is first rate, but my mind searches for context, wants more, the hand alone feels a little bit of a tease to a possibly interesting story, and is not enough alone for me to feel satisfied as a viewer.

Yes Ben, I feel about the same : something is definitely missing in this composition. But at the same time, I think it is complete : a hand (physical) reaching the sky (ethereal or spiritual) to get something more. It has some reference to something we have all hearded before(at least the Christian ones) : " Dust you are and unto dust you shall return". So wathever we think we are getting into, one reality stand for every one : we are flesh and bones and someday, sooner or later,we will be a handful of dust.

thanks claude, reading your comment, i wonder, even if it were a little bit of artifice, what if the sun were in the shot, so that it seemed the hand was reaching for it? that's about the best i could suggest. thanks for your giving me some more of your thoughts.

This is quite fascinating! I see Ben's point, but I find it enough as it is. An image to make one ponder!