Wednesday, June 1, 2011

 This is a series of photos that I took a few months ago. I've only chosen three of them, as I have quite a lot. These are the ones that I prefer.
 The idea is to borrow something completely banal, and to transfigure the context by changing its surroundings. Something that artists such as Magritte were doing long before I was even born. Take a look at the very famous one I'm thinking of : "La Trahison des images", 1929. Making a common object into a masterpiece.
There's numerous ways you can interprete these photos.
The way I imagine the last picture (above) is a bowl of wallnuts in a(their?) natural environment. A kind of symbol representing a return to origins.
The display of the bowl can also lead you to believe that it has always been there and was not just put there for some strange reason. Handmade pottery just arising from the ground or falling from the trees.
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Please tell me what YOU think.

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