This is an unusual setup for me.
but it’s still turning out ok for me.
I am exploring compositions.
and today I’m exploring linegasm.
*a feeling of joy for composing and seeing lines in a composition of an image/photograph.
repeat after me:
Ok, I’ll make it only 9.
it’s a repetition.
It’s a reflection.
It’s a never-ending self-image building.
is it?
no?
is it simply just creation of image after image?
the repetition is not replication.
repeated image is not the same image…
it’s always asking for a new definition of the origin.
is it the image more important than the mirror?
you tell me.
you decide.
This is a ‘sweet’ and soft posting …
I just want to share some of my macro works during this weekend.
The equipment used is nothing sort of fancy.
Some of the photos I’m using the ricoh gr with cheapo macro lens attachment. Some more of the photos I’m using the old vintage lens from Pentax 110 system… . attached those to the Sony NEX-6 body using macro extender rings.
Overall, for my personal leisure, this was quite satisfactory.
:)
This is not a real monument.
This is a replica of a real monument.
The real thing of this object is in fact not a monument at all.
This is a scaled-frozen of an already frozen imagination.
Are you real ?
or
Are you imagined ?
How does photography relate to monumentality?
Is monumentality something embedded on an object? a set of objects?
or
Is monumentality is something related to the nature of photography itself to freeze moments?
Ongoing activities … settings … Concurring events … Stopping moments … captured in a frame.
Every photograph is a monument.
a monument of time.
Is space a medium for art?
Is art not necessarily need space?
Does space occupy the special position in arts?
Space / Place … the generality and the particularity those demand their own rights everytime.
The interior separates itself from the exterior, yet the interior pays respect to the exterior. The general and the particular come to play between the interiors and the exteriors.
Space for the arts are artistically manipulated space (no pun intended). Even the most minimal articulated space can be an artistic kind of space.
The starting point for articulated space is starting point for placing articulated art.
The old structures and the new structure; this is a one most used creative fuel for articulation of space. They’re touching each other, they are avoiding each other, they are distancing each other, they are closer and closer, they are moving, they are staying. Old and...
Is it possible to create a photograph without any content?
Is title necessary for a photograph?
Can a photograph exist by itself?
no reference
no content
no sign
no meaning
is it possible?
Today is raining all day … almost. So no significant photographs are being taken today. However, a quick off-side taking some of my neighbours’ flowers and vegetations provide a relieving photo-disire energy.
I must admit, this is a quite weird setup …
NEX-6, with the NEX-Leica M adapter, Voigtlander 40/1.4 lens, and one piece of cheap 10+ macro filter.
There is not ‘technical perfection’ to be made here, just a kind of image that I would like to do to express my day.
What’s the material of a photograph? Is light a matter? or it’s a form of energy? What about darkness? The negative of light as the matter of a photograph?
Is it too much to imagine a very subtle kind of photograph with almost no light? or is it a ‘blasphemy’ just to think of a photograph in terms of its shadows and dark areas per se?
Primitive Figures
A Kid at The Museum
Indonesia in Frames
Free WiFi
Reading this piece of historical text on photography makes me realise one of the most basic function of photography; the social function.
Most of the time I’m not being aware of this kind of social function. At times I think that photography would be part of me trying to create my whole individual, closed, safe, personal world. Photography is a private conversation between the world and the photographer. And then this conversation has become a liberated kind of conversation. The photographer gave birth to the life of the photograph in-itself. Once the photography is being produced, it’s not up to the photographer to determine the life (and death) of the photograph. It has its life of its own.
This matter is being deepen by the condition of online sharing. The life of the photograph gains its own private life through the network; the Matrix you might called it. The network becomes the...