Over there
Before the flag
I saw him
Standing loud
Without uttering
A sound.
He allowed
Those around him
To speak what
He cherished
Canon 40D, Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM Lens, PP in PS4
Monday, October 21
Community
My friends at TMElive.COM announced a challenge to invite submissions that visually expressed the meaning of community. I was blank... no bullets in the gun. I may even have missed the deadline. I went through all sorts of complexities... y'know... churches, throngs, playgrounds... And then... then... it occurred to me that maybe I do simple better? Maybe one man... elegantly alone... silently beside a screaming sign before the symbol that represents what so many of his dearest friends deeply believe... Maybe this is the achingly poignant expression of what community means...
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The sentiment of community seems clear to me. Perhaps even more poignant than any of the other ideas you mentioned.
But then again I have always felt that the fewer the elements, the fewer the words, the louder the message. Of course it's just a small matter of picking just the right elements, just the right words.
That's the hard bit though in this case you've made it look easy.
Thanks Cedric... and uh-huh, I can see that discipline in your work... To distill out the un-necessary. I worry though when I do it that I've also eliminated nuance. But then again... I wonder what nuance really means in art other than distraction? Maybe that's the difference between art and philosophy? :-)
"the difference between art and philosophy"… Oh my. Now that something I had not thought of before. I just realised I have never separated the two before; I have always treated them as two sides of a coin. Perhaps I've been wrong. Will need to contemplate that one.
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