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Broken Reception

Distortion but not a Mixed Media

9 total reviews 
Comment from wallypete


Hey there Young Lady -

This is just way cool. Good on you! Not many folks would come close to even thinking of something like this, let alone pulling it off.

All the better that it was taken in a place as public as a restaurant. I love this, and I love your notes. You hit it all right on the head.

P.S. Lynnie is wild about your seascapes. Me too.

 Comment Written 02-Apr-2012


reply by the author on 02-Apr-2012
    Thank you very much! I had that photo [and some docents more] before the contest. I have to admit that it all started when we had a too long wait at a restaurant. We had dessert; but than something did happen in the kitchen, we never know what. I got bored. My camera was handy, my eyes stuck on that glass. There was originally ice in the water. I have some macros of it. Wired, surreal ice-scapes, the land of the Snow Queen...All the ice melted but now I cut some distortions in the corner of my eye. I got hold of the silverware, I was moving it behind the glass with one hand, taking photos with the other. I must have been a funny side for the other costumers. I had to stop in the middle of work. Darn. That *@#$%! Meal came and my water got replaced...LOL That is the story. Taught you like to read that.
reply by wallypete on 02-Apr-2012
    Oh, I definitely liked reading that! I can just picture the whole thing. That had to have been hilarious!
reply by the author on 03-Apr-2012
    It was hilarious. Just ask Phil. LOL
Comment from sandysartstudio


I can see why you had trouble undertanding the requirement of the contest. As you say what is truth to one person is not so to another. you only have to sit in a court room to understand that. i like your idea of the fork being real to the viewer but then not real to another viewer from another angle. That would had been a hard one to think of. sandy

 Comment Written 02-Apr-2012


reply by the author on 02-Apr-2012
    Thank you very much, you made my day! You understand exactly what I had in mine. I tried to find a metaphor; something what everyone could experience in reality just by changing his/her angle of view.
Comment from donkeyoatey


It was indeed a difficult concept..I thik that your interpertstion is quite good..as in we see through a glass darkly!! Love the way you have the fork bent into another plane of existance by the reflecting glass..I find it a creative entry. Donkeyoatey

 Comment Written 01-Apr-2012


reply by the author on 01-Apr-2012
    Thank you very much! First I had something else in mine, but than decided to leave to mixed media for a different occasion and go with something easier for the viewer to understand.
Comment from PhotoVision


This is something different, although I'm not convinced it fits the theme :) You do have lovely soft light on the fork, and that blue is nice. I applaud your creativity and good luck in the contest.

 Comment Written 01-Apr-2012


reply by the author on 01-Apr-2012
    Thank you for your review and your kind wishes. I am not convinced it feed the theme. I am not convinced if any of our entrees fit the theme because I still did not find out what the theme really was. Unfortunately our requests for clarification were never answered. I just followed my guesses what it may be. The very different entries show exact that. Well was a different kind of challenge. All entries are true in the mine of the poster for his/her understanding. I took only the first of the questioning lines in the invitation as written in my comments and symbolized my answer with a TRUE reception of a TRUE event what is nevertheless NOT THE TRUTH because the truth we are seeing here with our eyes as with the camera is NOT the FULL TRUTH because it is distorted by our reception of the truth.
    I know, that I don't know [Socrates}... I am just guessing about it [me].
reply by PhotoVision on 01-Apr-2012
    LOL, I hear you. Michele
reply by the author on 01-Apr-2012
    LOL
Comment from shiloh106


Neat take on the contest. Great distortion on the fork. This makes me think of a story my mom told me. There was a man-I don't know psychic maybe anyway he put a fork in a locked vault and offered to pay 1,000,000 to anyone that could bend the fork with their mind through the vault. No one ever got the money though.
I think you have caught the colors and light very well. Best of luck!

 Comment Written 30-Mar-2012


reply by the author on 30-Mar-2012
    Thank you very much. I had trouble with the theme. I am still not sure what was ask for.
    Thanks for the 1,000,000 story. I had never heard of it before.
reply by shiloh106 on 31-Mar-2012
    I agree about the contest. I had no idea what they really wanted that is why I did not enter.
reply by the author on 31-Mar-2012
    I know, I did see your question at the threads. Others, including me ask for clarification as well. Unfortunately our request were never answered. It looks as if even most of the participants were unsure of the theme and just picked some out from the confusing soup of contest introduction. Well, it was a challenge at least.
Comment from ckbesq


Cleo, this photo is very interesting, but what is more interesting is your artist's notes about truth, perception, and "awareness." You are a grand philosopher as well as an artist, and I love your thoughts on this.

 Comment Written 30-Mar-2012


reply by the author on 31-Mar-2012
    Thank you very much for your kind review and the great compliment :-)
Comment from Stacey Nagy


This is an excellent entry for the contest, and it is very well done. I like the selective lighting on this, adding to the mysterious feel of this composition. Very well composed.
Stacey

 Comment Written 30-Mar-2012


reply by the author on 30-Mar-2012
    Thank you very much! I appreciate your review.
reply by Stacey Nagy on 30-Mar-2012
    You are very welcome!
    Stacey
Comment from cynnocence


My friend, I too had great difficulty with the meaning of the contest. I struggled with an image that would convey the theme. I love how you've taken a clear and common subject matter and added that twist, that unique and come up with the distortion that is often reality. Thanks for sharing my friend. Cyn

 Comment Written 30-Mar-2012


reply by the author on 30-Mar-2012
    Thank you very much for your insight review and understanding.
Comment from pzoette


Sincerely wish I had a star bump. I still do not understand the co test but here's my take on the photo and your words as well

Palette: muted. Strange blue hue like melted metal with an almost brushed bronze fork are compelling. Color means a lot to me

Composition: the askewness of the shot assisted by post processing puts reality in question. How could this happen one might ask.

I ascribe to the truth at all truth is filtered through out own perception which is filters through our own experiences and biology. Absolute truth is an idea sure. But we do not know that the sun will rise tomorrow. Only that it has every day we can remember.

The more I look at this as I write in this stupid smart pad the more I'm drawn to it.

 Comment Written 30-Mar-2012


reply by the author on 30-Mar-2012
    Thank you very much for you throuought review and your toughts. [Don't worry, it seems most people, including me, do not understand the contest]
reply by pzoette on 30-Mar-2012
    LOVE this. Would hang it with a collection in which it would be at home. You are one of my faves!
reply by the author on 31-Mar-2012
    Thank you!!! :-)
reply by pzoette on 31-Mar-2012
    Artist-husband says ton pas in another thumbs up.
reply by the author on 31-Mar-2012
    Thank you!!!