Taken unnoticed at relatively close-range, this image reveals one woman's journey as being entirely stationary, and intensely focused. The prayerful cradling of her cell phone conveys a sense of acute devotion being made to a now ubiquitous device, an object of such ingratiated necessity that it might as well be an umbilical cord.
This tableau illuminates a harsh, practical, unstated modern reality: far more meditation and contemplation is directed towards transitory PDAs than to the formerly compelling, eternal religious iconography now relegated ever more to the background white-noise of modern life.
Adoration (the Calling), #9732-20D
© 2011 James W. Murray, all rights reserved.
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Details: February 18, 2011; Canon 20D; f/2.8 @ 1/50 sec; —2/3 EV; ISO 800; 100mm.
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