What is happening here? Perhaps a clutch of alien creatures, related to some distant brethren from the Beatles' Yellow Submarine, yearning for freedom? Yet the door's concrete encasement suggests an entry into a fortified interior rather than release.
The composition is one of complex symmetries: the door's trapezoidal geometry is repeatedly echoed in miniature by the cage; the large ovoid forms are propagated within the concrete wall. All lines lead to the door, which although is rigidly anchored may offer an opening to a larger world; by contrast the abstract form takes on the essence of floating balloons . . . ironically stripped of the freedom to move by the metal lattice. The two major spaces of this image present an intuitive contradiction: the dark space speaks to unknown possibilities, while the bright quadrant exhibits captivity.
Blue Door, #2956
(c)2009 James W. Murray, all rights reserved.
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Details: May 2, 2009; Canon 20D; f/5.6 @ 1/60 sec; -1 EV; ISO 800; 41mm.
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