Thursday 10/9 Entry

Surreality

"The unreal is more powerful that the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots, people, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on." -Chuck Palahniuk

This is why I love surreal elements in photographs. The photograph itself makes you want to believe what is happening is true, that's automatically the power of photography. But to then have an element that you KNOW is off, if just a little, allows for temporary fantasies to occur. Even when the photo is not a "perfect" image, even when the image is clearly set-up and no plausible scenario could produce the given results, the idea of this something occurring in reality can send you almost anywhere. Every persons fantasy is different, even when they look at the same photo, at the same time, in the same place, after eating the same thing.

I want more of that in my work. The silhouettes are getting there, but they are still to obvious. On the bright side, the ambiguity of the silhouettes has the potential for almost anything.