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| Sunil Sharma |
---"Art is not what you see but what you make others see"
--- Edgar Degas
---“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”
---Oscar Wilde
Lifting the veil!
Taking it off the face of reality and showing the face, warts and all.
Great art does that---exposing the ugliness and fault lines of a given historical era in a dynamic manner.
It, simultaneously, opens up new vistas of perception of old things.
Fresh ways of cognition of everyday facts, the sensory data, the given, the mundane and transform the given into something else, a new reality, a new artifact about life and world, suffused with its own energies, breathing life into existing order, and, breathing life of its own, becoming autonomous, a transcendental reality unto itself.
Creativity.
A sacred act!
Creating newer realities, sensibilities, dimensions.
Done with the aid of imagination. Once done and in the public domain as a product, art stimulates the imagination of the viewer/reader/end-user, thereby completing the circle of communication, the aesthetic transaction between creator and user of the work in question; a product, in mass society, but with a difference.
Photography is that branch of art that documents the elusive instant and also creates works that become iconic in the hands of great photographers. The likes of Henri Cartier-Bresson can produce stunning works relevant today for their poignancy and electric effect.
He becomes an auteur in the process.
"Candid moments", timely captured by alert photographers, can never fade, rightly pointed out by the famous French humanist Henri who continues to inspire a whole lot of succeeding generations to follow the rules of the art as set down by him.
This month's prompt does that.
Inspire.
It might not be shot by a world-class photographer but it captures a moment candidly and serves as the framework of reference.
It does not fail!
The select responses in the special section themed around the picture and the title "Contemplation" respond to the stimulus given by the picture.
How do you view the picture prompt?
That is important---seeing.
And make us see the world around you via your work/s.
The ekphrastic challenge makes the involved viewer see things in their own locality in your individual way.
You will enjoy the ways of "seeing" the world inspired by this photograph. It acts as a trigger. A stimulant.
The brain starts thinking in terms of images and sounds---a work is born.
Writing to picture prompts is indeed a difficult assignment.
The way it resonates with you and the audience/reader.
It must capture a particular element and expand upon it in a relatable manner.
That is the beauty of this kind of writing. It also becomes a collaboration with the photographer, matching of visions, pictorial and verbal.
The works featured are a testimony to a wonderful collaboration.
Rest of the edition is equally rich with inspiring writings.
Please enjoy!
Sunil
Sharma,
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