Sunday, February 23, 2014



I love these two pictures i got them from completely different sources and in their construction they are so similar (nakedness and vulnerability, rocks and water) But in the message they convey they are so starkly different but at the same time they link


(don't read the bit below if you want to form your own interpretation because i always think pictures usually say different things to different people)

Both show someone in their own little world, cut off from everything else. For the mother and child its a world of love and intimacy, while the lonely boy is in a world of confusion, with the water accentuating their peace/the need to drown out the noise inside his head.

And then in the mother and child photo they are so vulnerable because they are both so physically unprotected but at the same time they are so absorbed with each other that it doesn't seem like anything could touch them, while for the lonely boy he seems so vulnerable because he is so absorbed in himself and also in such a precipitous position, but at the same time his sadness makes this moment so private you feel intrusive looking at the picture, like such sadness is his secret, his moment, and you have no right to empathise or even wonder. (and i always wonder what happens after that picture-does he curl up on the cold rock and cry until he falls asleep exhausted? Does he plunge into the water and try to forget himself? Does he wash his face and bite his lip and carry on?)

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