I wanted to get an image with a recognizable scene, but in a senseless way. It should be there just gor being but not for any reasonable reason, much like the system of power in most lands of this world. Installed jist for power and not out of any logical thought, not for any particular purpose other than power itself. So, this was the best I managed to get. Bringing the whole scene as much out of focus as needed for giving it an insane kind of recognizability. It looks to me like an absurdity version of "Go away and come back tomorrow".
Your interpretation has many things parallel with my intention considering that kind of perceiving things but without the mental certainty of what they are for, and also without the visual certainty of what they are. Perhaps the same inreal world in front of the knowledge of the own non-existence in some few seconds, that is.
Anyway, it should be "disturbing", "strange", "fuzzy" as a result of my own impossibility to understand anything at all back in those times, but it was a very conscious impossibility. And so I am very glad that you didn't simply wrote that it is "mysterious" but you also described what you mean, which avoids completely to make it good or bad simply because of some classification.
If it is mysterious to you, Gustavo, then it is mysterious to you. I can't exactly understand your "mystery", and when I also consider that you always use only "label-words" but never take time to elaborate on what you mean about them, I must really wonder if you ever consider anything else than your quick overall impression out of a single look.
The image is strange for the perception of things without a detailed definition, much like meanings and thoughts that dissolve into nonexistence on one's mind, when we analyze them very carefully. This is what I wanted to do, a personal view of things as I perceived them but no mysteries. It is as strange as my own vision, but not mysterious. After all it is only some stairs and an elevator.
"the person climbing up there- because, many a times, one HAS to, despite the will"
Who could deny that? And it was exactly the same pressure under the dull lobotomization that took me to the shot, back in times when I had to consider all those "musts" that dehumanize us all.
Hi Nick, The first thought that came to my mind was quite disturbing. I see the strong intentional out of focus and harshness working to create the impression of the last few moments of a murderer's life before making his way up the steps of the gallows. Wow! How's that for a depressing interpretation? Andre
Aunque vos siempre tratas de evitar los misterios, a mí me encantan, y esa es la cualidad que yo le encuentro a esta foto: una foto misteriosa!, eso me gusta.
what i find partifularily striking in this image, is the lamp on top of of the stair that sheds a bit of light on the entrence of this centre of insanity~ it does carry for me a heavy load of dullness of the air that surrounds this 'institution' and yet in some strange way brightens and shapes the door to get in, and it stands high- like we look up at those that hide in there and that lobotomize us!... and the fuzzy look of it, the blur of the image, somewhat i relate with the state of the person climbing up there- because, many a times, one HAS to, despite the will!
you're right, it has a lot of that insanity feeling wrapped all over it, cheers, v.
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