bonnym E. Haus
Red
I am a fan of the imprecise. I love the latitude of ambiguity. When clarity gives way to interpretation, anything is possible. This wonderfully dominant red blot…a flower? A perfectly ripe apple, waiting to be picked. A red-shirted gardener kneeling to weed a melon patch. Maybe a flag rippling in the wind over the grave of a fallen veteran of some foreign war.
Clarity is easy; it gives us the right answer. Ambiguity is more demanding…but it offers us a chance to create our own answers, to visit pasts and futures and perhaps change them, to conjure novel possibilities out of the mundane air. In this photograph the focus is on the unfocused; it gives us an image as insubstantial and beautiful as a cricket’s song.
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