A Matter of Perspective
What do you see in The Chicago Picasso?
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A bird?
An aardvark?
A baboon?
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Pictures have fascinated me since childhood. Children think in pictures. I never grew out of it. "A picture is worth a thousand words." I believe that. Photography, like art and music, is creative expression. Just as two artists' work or two musicians' compositions are each unique between them, so are two photographers' photos. We each experience art, music, and photography in different ways. How we interpret another artist's work is mostly subjective.
The world we live in is deep as the deepest ocean and high as the highest mountain; the new frontiers beyond are as vast as the universe. The sky is no longer the limit to what can be photographed - consider the surreal, yet real, photo of a sunset on Mars! Mankind may or may never travel to distant planets, but our collective imaginations can take flight across unfathomable distances to unknown worlds beyond our far-flung galaxy. Inspiring art, music, and photography have power to transport us through the cosmos and transcend reality. Art in all it's forms has power to change what we see, influence how we feel, and direct where we go...if only in our mind's eye.
Daydreams and dreams - the catalyst for artistic expression - leave impressions on our hearts for brief moments, and when we are fortunate, forever.
~dkg
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Picasso never explained what his sculpture was intended to represent. What do you see? |