1185 W. Georgiaby
zeuszenComment by ubique: Oh! No comments before mine, but I like this photograph very much, so I will have to risk making a solitary fool of myself.
It's an image with some delicious contradictions. At first it appears made up of regular geometric shapes, but it's actually not. With the exception of the big triangle at upper left, every shape is just a little imperfect, irregular or asymmetrical. No line takes the easy, "natural" way to a corner of the frame. The effect is one of tension and restlessness.
The point-of-view also seems initially comprehensible, but a further moment's study shatters that illusion, too. Is it a building seen from above; seen from an adjacent, taller building? Or seen from below, from beneath some sort of overhanging structure? And what is that reflected detail? Is the whole image perhaps a reflection? I've even turned it upside down, without comfort. My every effort to rationalise it has been defeated.
Knowing something your views in these matters (from the forums), I expect that this irreconcilability is no accident. I'm not dismayed, anyway; my inability to master it is one of the things I most like about it.
The other is purely graphic. In particular the lovely gradient across the windows on the left side, and then the gentlest rendering of the window detail on the right hand side.
So that's it; bold shapes, delicate detail and bags of enigma. Can't wish for much more than that.
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