Form from Formlessness
by Keith Maniac

Comment:
Oh dear! When I look at the dross (none of which is even remotely abstract) at the ribbon end of this particular heap, I have to say that 243rd place may be a badge of honour!
Credo nos in fluctu eodem esse

Message edited by author 2006-04-05 03:56:33.

Street Tag
by Steveo77z

Comment:
That's ambitious; to disclose the accidental refinement and beauty within something as deliberately ugly and confrontational as a street tag. I think even a literal representation of something (which this is) can become an abstract view when it discovers a subject-within-a-subject like this. Especially when the original, literal subject has been so thoroughly banished. 8.

Playing with colours
by Structor

Comment:
A classical abstract (it's not at all representational), and a very good one. When there is no apparent attempt at depicting or even suggesting any particular thing, the viewer is freed to abandon any attempt at resolution of the image, and can instead just see where the colours, shapes, textures and tones might lead. It's an experience like Through the Looking Glass when it works, and this one does. 9.

Form from Formlessness
by Keith Maniac

Comment:
My only 10. I love the elegance of the two curves. I love the beautiful, subtle tonal gradient. Most of all, I love the sympathetic distillation of the subject; the way you have isolated and captured its essence without having to represent it literally, or at least entirely. It's perhaps not technically abstract, but I don't technically care. Bravo!

Minimal Suffering
by mocabela

Comment:
This image establishes an idea that presumably has nothing to do with its subject's actual identity. It is literally representational, and so maybe not strictly abstract, but its impact is certainly at least largely figurative and that's near enough for me! 8.

Sudden understanding
by scotthadl

Comment:
This is fascinating. It is probably just a hole in a bit of metal (razor blade? metal ruler?), but that's irrelevant. What is so appealing about it is the fact that it suggests a resolution, but never quite delivers it. The most compelling thought is celestial. A planet against a meteor shower? A moon against a mega-planet? Or maybe it's something very small; at the sub-atomic level? Whatever, it is an attractive and absorbing image. I like the title, too; I feel I almost understand it, but then I don't. 8.

In Vitro
by xtine

Comment:
It's a very challenging photograph. Most of what I see is reflected, I think. The colours are well done, and unify the chaos just enough. I feel I should be able to resolve this image, but fortunately I can't. 8.

Flow
by climbin2thetop

Comment:
Unusual that one of the handful of other worthwhile images in this challenge has the same title, and involves the very same idea. I honestly can't separate the two "Flow" images, so I have to offer the same comment and the same score:

A beautiful image that uses a real-world object to create, or at least to suggest, something else. I suppose some might argue that it's not technically 'abstract' in art terms, in that it's representational. But it is representational of something other than what it actually is, so I figure that qualifies. And the thing that it represents is a state, rather than an object. In any case, more than 90% of the entries in this challenge are not even vaguely abstract, so you're way ahead! I applaud the vision, the elegance and the sympathetic title. 9.

Sorry I can't be more original, but at least I'm fair!

Flow
by dahkota

Comment:
A beautiful image that uses a real-world object to create, or at least to suggest, something else. I suppose some might argue that it's not technically 'abstract' in art terms, in that it's representational. But it is representational of something other than what it actually is, so I figure that qualifies. And the thing that it represents is a state, rather than an object. In any case, more than 90% of the entries in this challenge are not even vaguely abstract, so you're way ahead! I applaud the vision, the elegance and the sympathetic title. 9.

Fluid Ways
by messerschmitt

Comment:
Too good for this, Wiel.

Message edited by author 2006-04-03 03:33:20.