Dreams

[sasha_feather]

Comments

[darkemeralds]

I've returned to these pictures to reconsider them. I'm not entirely sure it's even appropriate to comment on images that represent dreams to another person (and I find the challenge itself extra chellanging), but I find my eye roving over the silver cup in the grass and thinking a lot about "holy grail" and Arthurian legend, probably because I just started watching Merlin.

I feel like one of the reasons there isn't a great deal of commenting in this community is that it's a bit daunting to comment on someone else's art--there's always the fear of missing the point. I'd love it if people felt freer to give their impressions of a photo of mine, or the ideas it generates in their mind, but perhaps others feel differently.

What do you think?

[sasha_feather]

I'd love it if there were more commenting here. Do you think there is a way to encourage such? Would construction criticism be welcome or not? (Probably that varies by individual member).

"Dreams" is indeed a challenge-- I was trying to do something 'conceptual and weird' with the first shot, and something more simple with the second. I like the idea of putting words with photographs, maybe building a narrative into a photo. In the second photo, the dream-narrative is, you're walking along and suddenly you find the holy grail. Or maybe just a silver cup. What happens next? :)

[darkemeralds]

I agree that con-crit is an iffy area, since the community wasn't set up specifically for that purpose.

But as to generating more comment, well, personally I'm going to start both commenting more and prompting comments on my own submissions. I'm conscious of the notion that Art Should Speak For Itself, and so I post my pictures with virtually no comment, but here are some of the kinds of things I think are worth saying:

--the way the challenge has made me take different routes, or open my eyes, or think about the visible world

--my thoughts about the connection between the challenge and the photo (especially the abstract challenges)

--the notions that someone else's photo brings to mind

--technicalities--how the picture was taken, how long one waited for the shot, how many shots were deleted before settling on this one

--why this one?

I'm sure there's lots more, too.

[sasha_feather]

Those are all wonderful discussion topics, that I would love to see explored in this community. If you want to make a separate post just for discussion, that's fine with me, to let the art stand alone, or whatever, ie, new ideas welcome here.