Winter, Pillars, Light, Shadows

Four pillars stand equally apart.

But they are not equal. Each show a subtly different perspective, as though each have a different personality. They do. The right column, with its one surface shown as if looking straight at the camera, could be a person. The other columns too, “looking away” from the camera betrays some character. This personification of the columns, standing like Moais on that remote island, can be perceived in the direction they face, and in the way the winter light falls upon them ever so differently. Each seem to be warmed – or warm – in a different manner.

They also seem to point to the space above them. That space then is a link to all of them. But what is its meaning? Or is it enough to “join” them with this space? Is that its purpose?

When I look at this image I feel the warmth of the winter sunlight in exactly the same way it strikes the pillars. And I feel the cold of the shadows in the very same way. I think the space is my space. It is the same space as the surface of the image, the physical photograph, or at least the digital surface on my screen. It represents completely how I felt that day, playing with my children on that rooftop garden that winter afternoon waiting for my wife to finish her shopping.

Each column represents each one of us and yet it does not.

Radio Sushi – Talking Heads – Psycho Killer