On 11/1/05, Boris Liberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > > What were you trying to achieve? > > Shel, I have this old ongoing idea of mine - to show a graceful powerful > animal (such as tiger) in captivity... This time I wanted to make it > look somewhat unusual... Unusual as in the way I see the modern art > where supposedly strange and unrelated lines come together to show some > motif... > > Looks like this attempt wasn't too successful ;-). > > Boris > >
I think I sort of see where you're coming from, with the reflections superimposed on top of the tiger to show -- I don't know exactly -- how urbanised the tiger is, or how much he is a prisoner of man. Particularly the reflection of the arm on the glass is a nice touch, as is the fact that with the reflection of the trees and open sky behind you, you show how free the outside is compared to the dreary cage. I would not like you to think I'm speaking with any sort of knowledge in art appreciation (because I don't have any), but I think if it were me, I would try two changes. (1) The reflections are sharp and the tiger is slightly out of focus, so I would like to see the tiger more in focus, unless part of your message was to have the tiger unfocussed. (2) Too many layers of reflections are blurring the message in my mind. If you would be able to stand in a place where you didn't have an extra window reflecting even more stuff underneath your "main" reflections.
