INGRESSO III, "The Toy-Kid"

Thank you, Mirco..Now it is a bit too big :)..Nevermind. The photo is interesting, open for different interpretations. The walls are a little too soft IMO, on the other hand this creates a nice opposition to the cartoon image of the girl. Your picture makes me remember my own childhood in the city where there are lots of houses like that ,old, misery, misterious, smelling raw, the houses where the walls tell stories.

Thanks Natasha, I think you perfectly got the point:)

Where are you from, by the way? The house of this photo comes from an old building of Poland: it scared me as well when I saw it, so I decided it was the perfect surrounding place for this little story. The little kid instead is an illustration from an old toy-catalogue (from '50 or '60) and it is supposed to be a TOY... that ?looks like a kid? (the face has something of a cat as well, and I didn't manipulate it!). I decided to leave the environment soft in order to focalize to the toy-kid.

So, if you look at the whole scene in this way, you will see that there is nothing alive there? all is left to the memory? regret maybe? Who knows: it?s always difficult to interpret a personal feeling. . .

Best,

Mirko

 

Hi Mirko:

I think Natasha makes a good observation about the walls -- just a bit too soft, especially considering the relative sharpness of this spooky little girl. Since she is so much brighter than her immediate surroundings, I think the realism -- and the drama -- of the scene might be improved by adding some light beams that stretch form the white light near the top of the stairs across the scene at a diagonal to illuminate her figure. In the enlarged verision, I can just begin to see how bizarre her facial structure really is. --jim

I spent my childhood in Latvia, not exactly in the house like that, but there were a lot of similar ones in the neighbourhood. I still feel tenderness towards the old houses I must say. BTW, this picture could be a nice illustration for a book of psychoanalysis :)..

any written critique is welcomed :)