Sysifos is done

What would be achieved by being done? If Sysifos finally managed to ballance that rock on the top of the hill, and could walk away. What would be his purpose?? Would we still talk about him?

The universal truth about him lives because of its simplicity. Rolling a boulder upp a hill; forever. We can alla interpret it like we please. I´ve had jobs that feel like that. It can be seen as OCD. And so on, and on. Being that symbol, is his purpose. Are we searching for these truths in every story we hear? Gossip doesn´t need to be true, it needs to be a good story. 

Some people mistake this need for story, with actually caring about the characters. There is no caring for fictional characters, some of them are there to die! This has terrible efects when famous people  are hounded, the audience doesn´t care, and that is the real tragedy.

The choice of medium

I was thinking about what is unique to photography, what can you not do with any other device than a camera. What can be shown with that medium, that no other will achieve? Offcourse you could allways copy a photograph, but that would be no more than a copy. 

There is light, shadow and color, projected on a photosensitive surface,  that is exposed for a set duration of time. By doing this very deliberately you can see slices of life. "The decisive moment." You can freeze time, by exposing for a short time, or you can go the other way and show movement by exposing for a longer period.

 

Do you see the motion of the leaves in this image? Sure you could paint such an image, but here the bold brushstrokes of green are done by the tree itself. This image shows how some of the leaves move, while others are still, it also shows how much they move. In a way you are seeing the wind as it expresses itself through the motion of the leaves. I think this is unique to photography.

Every Portrait is a selfportrait.

If that is the case; what do you see in this picture? I would like to ad that every one watching a portrait sees him or herself. For whatever the image says, needs to be interpreted by the viewer. That is the point. And if it is viewed by someone who thinks by himself, each interpretation will be unique, so the message is created every time someone watches with intention.