follow my bliss

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's been again entirely too long since I last posted an image, but it's a good thing.  This break gave me a chance to re-think what I was doing with my photography as well as my architecture.  I will continue my 1001 photographs.

I fell into a rut when I started taking pictures for stock photography.  Taking on stock photography isn't for everyone, it was a soul-killer for me.  I started seeing photographs as cash rather than as a creative outlet.  It was not dissimilar to corporate architecture... though that is more of a soul-killer for someone like me.

So my new year's resolution: (aside from the usual exercising and eating well) To follow my bliss with both photography and with architecture.  Get back to photographing what I want and get back to a theoretical discourse with my architecture.

Interestingly enough, I found a photography and architecture competition titled "Erotic Architecture"
by an architecture design competition website called "Homemade Dessert". The competition requires one photograph relating to the topic of erotic architecture and a comment with it.   Perfect for my intentions, I can start exercising my new year's resolution!  Above is the photograph I entered (photo #106) and here's my blurb:

Eroticism, unlike simple sexual activity is more a psychological venture.  Under this premise, the photograph uses contrast and contradiction of tactile and symbolic architectural elements as a medium for the psychological activity.  The photo is of a rusted chain and a silk curtain wall.  The chain is rough, solid, restraining, at the same time supportive, whereas the silk curtain wall is soft, light, fluid, dividing and fragile.  One is definite and is easy to grasp, the other ephemeral in form, hard to grasp.

These two disparate architectural elements juxtaposed is an attempt to create associations that are not preconceived, it is thought to be open ended and provocative to the viewer.

I'm not at all surprised to find many submitted photographs of skyscrapers and vessel-like receptacles... sheesh... architects.