Of undercurrents and photographical vortexes

Out of all motifs that aren’t necessarily artistic, I’ve been most surprised that the dual concept of undercurrents and vortexes would make themselves so useful for my artistical wonderings, since I’ve only crafted them for my observations of life.

The idea of undercurrent fits my artistical purposes as it serves as the vessel for the quintessence, and the vortexes are the concret manifestation that would help me translate the quintessence.For instance, a line on the paper would have to be displayed in a way that it matches the desired quintessence, the same way the combination of musical notes would also have to. Each element added to the piece would have to be studied as to be placed in a way it materializes the quintessence properly.

But it’s in the taking of photographs that I realized them materialized undercurrents end up being more independent from quintessences, as we pictures are always more meaningful the better they are at symbolizing something. For instance, a great picture would be in a Christmas night (or morning), where we could find the father more entertained with the toy than his own kid. Such undercurrent would be shown in the picture if we could get the kid looking elsewhere while the grown-up is on his knees, enthusiastically looking for the missing arm piece to make the robot complete.