[Leica] Murillo's. Clutter in a classical mode

[afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin at afirkin.com)]

> I think it's short sighted (perhaps the word) to call the photo cluttered.
> Clearly the room they're in is cluttered but the photo itself is governed
> by
> a definable geometry and by clear and forceful separation of areas of dark
> and light. There is a diagonal line running down from the upper right to
> the
> middle left that passes just across the top of the mother's and boy's
> heads;
> another suggested line that bifurcates the photo and passes through their
> waists, more or less (in her case, an empire waist perhaps). And finally a
> lovely parabola that begins a the boy's right wrist, and traces along the
> tops of his arms and up onto his mother's shoulders and across and down
> her
> left arm that -- if you let your imagination continue it -- lands at the
> little girl's feet -- so that they are pulled together around a black
> center
> (the blackest part of which, btw, strongly suggests a valentine).  The so
> called clutter is incidental, it is real life, it is the equivalent of
> clouds in the sky or ripples on the sea, its existence is what allows us
> to
> see the actual meanings that lie beneath.

you have said that so much better than I did. Busy and cluttered, but real
life. Thanks