diptych # 41 ~ eat healthy, it's good for you

Clothlines ~ Stone Harbor, NJ • click to embiggenOver my many years of association with the medium of photography and its apparatus (aka: conventions and vernacular), especially that of picture making as art, I have come to realize that the one quality I appreciate most in a picture is that of wondering why a picture maker made the picture I am viewing - a question which incites in me a desire to move beyond the visually obvious.

To wit .... if upon first viewing a picture, a picture maker's intent and subsequent execution thereof hits me in the eye like a big pizza of pie (for me) that's not amore because (again, for me) it's not so much of a story.

More often than not, the why-did-he/she-make-this-picture? thought happens when the picture maker has taken me to a scene I've never seen previously - both visually and emotionally / intellectually. A picture which requires me, by visual force* if necessary, to get involved with the picture by using more than just my eyes.

To my eye and sensibilities, there is very little more visually forceful than an exquisitely rendered representation of an "ordinary" scene. TMEaS, that characteristic / quality in a picture literally begs the question, "why was such care and attention taken to illustrate such a 'mundane' subject / scene"? And, because I have a mind which is often driven by curiosity and a desire to learn a new trick or two (keeps life interesting, does it not?), I can't help but try to find an answer to that question.

In a nut shell and all of that written, I am not so interested in pictures which provide easy answers. Rather, I am interested in those which pose questions and, hence, food for thought.

After all, when all is said and done, are you not what you eat?