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Sometimes art is the collision of intent and happenstance. The intent here is obvious. This photographer didn’t find herself in position to shoot this photograph by accident; she made a deliberate decision to place herself there, based on a personal understanding of aesthetics and color and the geometry of composition.
The fish, however, was…and presumably still is…completely ignorant of aesthetics and color and the geometry of composition. Although the fish doesn’t have enough intelligence to know how to pose for a photographer, it does have enough intelligence to associate the large amorphous moving blob outside the bowl with the appearance of food. The blob arrives, the fish gets excited.
The photographer is in the right spot for when the fish moves into the right spot. The result? Something new. A thing the photographer anticipated but could not have predicted. The collision of intent and happenstance. Art.
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