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The Imaginative awareness buried deep in human consciousness makes the viewer, when they look at that photograph that resembles a painting, respond subconsciously to the symbols, lines shapes, people and things that are a result of the interaction between image and receiver. These symbols may be familiar to them, but their detail level and complexity is much higher.
This work takes the photograph outside its traditional documentary role and moves it towards abstraction. As we look at the contents of the photograph, our minds produce an imaginary image, free of the three dimensions, and representative of the clash between light and shadow. I aimed at stressing the mental consciousness of the reality of the photograph by reproducing nature using things we don’t usually notice or find in memory. There is an incentive to search and unlock the infinite mystery of the complex photograph through realizing the harmony of subject in its core. It is no longer a beautiful photograph. Its function is similar to that of art inspiring contemplation. It is no longer a documentation of reality but rather a search for something beyond it. The multiple images in this work are very similar to daily activities stored in memory, some of which are inaccessible to viewer. The lines and the ambiguous connections between images in the shape of a series of documented events (places, times, people, activities) point at daily events and push the viewer to arrive at an organized image in a haphazard manner. These images are supposed to be of realistic events and characters; instead they were abstract combinations of elements and vague symbols that seemed like mysterious documentary photographs.
We see that image reflects an artistic documentary side that matches its social reflection. The photograph itself might be documentary to certain extent but it also conceals plenty of symbolism and combines portraits with biographies, emphasizing its historical role and moving forward from representation towards a more complex photograph.
This work takes the photograph outside its traditional documentary role and moves it towards abstraction. As we look at the contents of the photograph, our minds produce an imaginary image, free of the three dimensions, and representative of the clash between light and shadow. I aimed at stressing the mental consciousness of the reality of the photograph by reproducing nature using things we don’t usually notice or find in memory. There is an incentive to search and unlock the infinite mystery of the complex photograph through realizing the harmony of subject in its core. It is no longer a beautiful photograph. Its function is similar to that of art inspiring contemplation. It is no longer a documentation of reality but rather a search for something beyond it. The multiple images in this work are very similar to daily activities stored in memory, some of which are inaccessible to viewer. The lines and the ambiguous connections between images in the shape of a series of documented events (places, times, people, activities) point at daily events and push the viewer to arrive at an organized image in a haphazard manner. These images are supposed to be of realistic events and characters; instead they were abstract combinations of elements and vague symbols that seemed like mysterious documentary photographs.
We see that image reflects an artistic documentary side that matches its social reflection. The photograph itself might be documentary to certain extent but it also conceals plenty of symbolism and combines portraits with biographies, emphasizing its historical role and moving forward from representation towards a more complex photograph.
