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Originally Posted by ronjon619
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Originally Posted by jkhunter
That is one extremely distrubing sigpic Ronjon619. My God, what a horrible life she portrays, this makes me very sad.
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Why does it make you sad? I really don't know what type of life she is portraying. Help me out with this one. I would really like to read your thoughs on her life. Because I have no clue which direction her life is heading, or her background. |
Here's my take on what the photographer/ model was trying to portray:
Her arm stitched up means she had her arm cut open.
Either way, she's been abused or has abused herself. Running makeup -or is that blood, perhaps both? Seems to me shes been crying due to pain, depression, anger, or frustration or a possible combination of all four. Also, notice the blood coming out of the side of her mouth. That, to me, symbolizes that something has gone wrong inside her a causative effect no matter if her condition was due to self abuse or external victimization, something has gone wrong. The skull on her right forearm with the talons going into its brain shows what she was was thinking about or somehow related to, at the time she chose the design. Excruciating mental pressure or now twisted mind perhaps? Also, notice she position of her head within her arms and not looking directly at the camera. It's as if she's trying to hide and is ashamed, the fact that she's not grimacing and not particularly cowering seems to say she has conceded to her state of existence. Also, looking a bit deeper, she is the sole subject within this portrait which tells me she feels and is isolated, left alone to deal with her pain at an ever perpetual state of despair. ...And the tattooed skulls create a permanent attachment / attraction(?) to death.
Look closely through and she is a very beautiful and young woman. To me it symbolizes the juxtaposition of beauty vs pain at war within a very vulnerable person. Beauty and vulnerability struggling against the harsh realities of her world. Definitely someone on the edge. On the bottom left corner is the word "worth". Is that the name the photographer chose to use to identify his/her work or is it somehow the value of human life in general and the "worth" of youth and beauty in specific.
In reality shes probably just a model using herself as a canvas to dramatize her view of the world and the realities of those in her (and consequently our) generation.
The use of a female vs the use of a male as the subject seems to be of some significance. Traditionally the female is the "weaker" of the two sexes, and thus more vulnerable. Could the author of this realistic impressionism trying to state that youth and beauty is at the mercy of a very cruel and uncaring world?
The picture in itself, is a very powerful statement of the world in which we now live. The very fact that it exists somewhere in the world around us, visibly or remaining in the shadows, realistically and symbolically is a tragedy.
Art isn't always easy to look at, but it is still art by definition of affect.
That's my take.
How'd I do?
...ah...tin..fo-wer thar good buddEE, keep the shy nee sahd uup an the darty sahd down, ketch you on the flip - flop. Say hel-lo to good 'ol Kris Kristopherson in thet micro mini bus fer me will ya? I gone. (Oops - I think I just showed my age - seeing that I saw "Convoy" at the theater. 8))
