Saturday, 24 May 2008
in the bite of a thought
The three photos above happend to be on the 27th of February, which is no special day for me, except the fact, it was the day, they happened to be. It was around 2 p.m. when I was melting colour plastics for an idea I had come across before.
facing backs
The first blocks of flats in Bulgaria were erected in the late 50s being of service to the then political ideology . Those buildings would at that time give shelter and be the emblem of a uniform class and society.
Nowadays, the blocks already unfit for use are still on a mass scale dwelled and long ago paid in full. Well, the price I myself find extremely high.
What we got now is a rusty badge showing people’s isolation, indifference, lack of responsibility when talking of human relations and sense of “common property”. Some twisted change’s happened to them.
They now prefer to face their backs, have pill-boxes, stating, we’re no longer “uniform”.
regressus in quadram
“Fuga ex quadra”* and “Regressus in quadram”* are actually forming one picture, a balance, represented here by the spirit(circle)-material(square) connection.
“Regressus in quadram” is derived from “Fuga ex quadra” which is easy to see because of its 180 Degree clockwise turn.
When one’s watching the “loop” of the two photographs, that is, going left to right and then again, it all ends up in creating a full circle, a final balance of life and it goes so natural nevertheless you want it or not.
* "Escape from the square" and "Return to the square"
excerpts from the "Don't Look Down" series
I have to say few words here. I'm not going to comment the content of the photos but just wanted to make a note that I am not proud at all by showing the frames of the negatives and the data they consist of, like the number of the frame etc..It was used long ago and it isn't that original anymore. Because these are reproductions, not using a scanner but my digital camera and then digitally processed, trying to represent their original look and in-frame position, I decided not to crop them.
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