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Reality vs. appearances: Wood vs. lack of light
Remember Platon's Allegory of the Caves? If you have only ever seen shadows, for you they are the real thing.
This Cuban statue (2001) is made of wood. Its shadow is made of a LACK OF LIGHT and it seizes its existence as soon as the statue loses its illumination. The object and its shadow are fundamentally different things. Strange things, shadows are.
Photography intrinsically deals with images and not with the objects themselves. Here, we see an image of an object and a second image of a negative representation of that same object, caused by sunlight reflected from a marble floor.
Opposites? Not really, but the photo was anyhow submitted for the FlickrFriday theme 'Opposites'.
Reality vs. appearances: Wood vs. lack of light
Remember Platon's Allegory of the Caves? If you have only ever seen shadows, for you they are the real thing.
This Cuban statue (2001) is made of wood. Its shadow is made of a LACK OF LIGHT and it seizes its existence as soon as the statue loses its illumination. The object and its shadow are fundamentally different things. Strange things, shadows are.
Photography intrinsically deals with images and not with the objects themselves. Here, we see an image of an object and a second image of a negative representation of that same object, caused by sunlight reflected from a marble floor.
Opposites? Not really, but the photo was anyhow submitted for the FlickrFriday theme 'Opposites'.