[Leica] portrait of elizabeth (mostly safe for work)

[imagist3 at mac.com (Lottermoser George)]

Totally on the same page with you re: the illusive qualities of  
"real" and/or "true." Yet, when I look at photographs, films and  
video stuff; or listen to music, or read literature; I often "feel"  
that the work either does or does not "ring true" with my subjective  
sense of reality. This has nothing to do with "showing" some reality  
or speaking literally. Totally surrealistic images and/or literature  
can "ring true" for me.

And yes - every expression composed to describe "reality" falls short  
of true physical experience. The moment the human mind begins to  
process experience we enter an unreal world of thoughts, judgement,  
interpretation, et al.

In the case of Kyle's "elizabeth:" a slightly different look in the  
eye, a slightly different expression of the mouth, the inclusion of a  
finger on the skirt - could have caused the image to "ring true" for me.

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george@imagist.com



On Oct 1, 2007, at 11:37 AM, Walt Johnson wrote:

> Hell, everything could be fake. What if there isn't really any real?