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Ignoring the poem for now(I don't want it "suggesting" things, given that the image has enough voice to speak on its own...just my opinion): this is fascinating.
I as the viewer now have a choice: do I engage with this shot as it is...or do I relate it to the first where the pith is seen rather than the peel as here?
And if the latter, I confess there's a poignant sense of the passge of time...as if innocence(as seen in #1) soon fades, and age does indeed wither innocence.
I'm really rather taken with both images, though I know perhaps that I'm making them into something other than they were created...yet isn't that what we wish the viewer to be: free so as to make their own imaginative creation from the photograph in front of them?
The fact that the rind/peel in #2 is clearly drying..and inverted in relation to #1...is to me extremely meaningful.
I wish I'd thought of this type of shot, Don..in fact, both these shots I feel are inspiring me!
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Zig,
I appreciate and thank you very much for writing your interpretation of the picture. I didn't see this one before. Your interpretation gave a new meaning to both images. While I saw the first one as a clever picture, kind of nice kitchen motif...(sorry, but I saw it only in that way) Your thoughts about this series gave me the idea that I was missing to see the essence. I see it now from another level, other state of mind, then I am able to see a new meaning I like very much.
You know, when I see a picture like this one, that inspires so much feelings and tells a meaningful story. I can't stop thinking that I should always be thinking that content goes first than technique.
Don: Thanks so much for sharing this series. It has given me a great lesson...
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
Paul Cezanne