The Real and the Represented
by markwiley

Comment:
I could illustrate an essay on museums with this photo. Museums don't just provide homes for art, they shape the art that is created. Your photo suggests to me that this artist knew he was painting for a museum, and is in fact painting a museum. Notice all the similarities between the painted world and the photographed world. He or she has painted something bare and sterile, in which life and passion stand around awkwardly.

I'm hanging this in my fantasy gallery

the perks of being a wallflower
by kichu

Comment:
This is very stylized, a style that announces itself as art, which I don't usually like, but there is much that commends this image to me. Because it is affecting primitive camera technology, and "objectifying" a woman's face, it reminds me of Man Ray. The rose becomes most of the face, and there is a certain poignancy in its failure to become a face even though it's trying very hard. The only thing remaining of the face is one eye. Now, someone grumpier than I might say that it's pandering to include a beautiful glistening eye, but I like that the face is allowed to see, rather than be seen. There is something allegorically rich about it. The photo is a collage of cliches, but actually there is nothing wrong with that if they are clumped together in a confrontational or slightly disturbing way.

I'm hanging this in my fantasy gallery.

Blackbird
by skewsme

Comment:
You've turned Paul McCartney's lies into truth! He's singing in the dead of night! Bright delirious beauty. Take me with you

Red

sky puddle
by beatabg

Comment:
something appealing about this. the sharp diagonals, the red corner mirroring the glimpse of blue sky, like hell and heaven. The crumble of asphalt. something gorgeous about it all.

Red

Spring Rain....
by NikonJeb

Comment:
I think the "split in two" composition is saved by the hints of shapes in the dark top half. The delirious scratchwork of the rain and wires on the bottom half is wonderful. Feels like an internal urban landscape.

Yellow

Transient
by Bear_Music

Comment:
i wish dpc let you make this bigger. It has the motion and texture of a Pollock painting. Rhythm, marvelous rhythm and color. A simple palette dominated by two highly contrasting colors. but also the high contrast of dark and light. All rhythmically entangled. Yeah, this is a visual delight.

Yellow

The Fortune Teller
by kanaj

Comment:
oh wow, this is very me, a surprising and original image, a spiritual energy, a being from another plane perhaps.

Red

Approaching
by jomari

Comment:
there is an unsettling quality to this. Something is off about the colors. It's darker than it should be, but the colors are still pretty saturated. Something wicked this way comes. the dog and I can smell it.

Blue

rush
by Tiberius

Comment:
one of the features/topics that come up in discussions of art and its value is "originality." "Original" was the first word that came to mind when I saw this image, because it is like no other I've seen. But what can I point to that is "original"? "Never been done!" Big bold silhouettes have been done. contre jour has been done. Maybe individual is a better word. There's something very individual and personal about this capture. foreground, middle ground and background conveyed so boldly with so little visual information, like three worlds being presented. But also, as your title suggests, a sense of time is here, not simply by conveying "speed" but by contrasting it with what is not moving, and with what is slowly setting. The railings are the prisons of each world, easily transcended by an artist such as yourself. I'm only 3 images in and I already know this is one of my favorites.

Blue

The fog of sleep
by mariuca

Comment:
i like the mysteriousness of this image. I like how I keep changing my mind about how much of this is real and how much painted. something weird about what is focused and what is blurred. I resisted at first what seems like a vignette, but a vignette isn't so normal when it's putting the focus on scritchy nothingness. And normal is to be avoided at all costs.