What the heck is the May photo all about then?

May 02, 2010  •  Leave a Comment

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This mysterious image was taken as I wandered around a deserted industrial area of San Fransisco one Sunday afternoon. It’s simply a dirty window with junk piled up against it on the inside and the reflection of a tree and a car which are in the street behind me.

I love the ambiguity generated when you isolate an image from its context – like all my pictures, it’s an abstract first – the subject is just a means to an end.  You can always find hidden meaning though. In this case the dirt and paint drips on the plane of the window obscure both the vague and undefined world inside the building and also the “real” world where the viewer is standing.

Did you notice that you can’t see the photographer’s reflection?  Spooky, eh…


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