Someone
commented recently about my photography habit, "dakayo nga talaga
photographers, agpapada panunot yo" (you photographers really think alike).
It made
me think and I remembered one time I was with some photographers looking at
world war two ruins. One of them commented that it would be nice to have a
photo shoot with models near the ruins. It will be a distinctive effect with a
beauty as the foreground and frenzied ruins in the background.
But what
I have in mind was completely different. I was hoping some very old war veteran
will pass by with wrinkled expression of a distraught face to match the ruinous
background showing the chaotic past of the place with the very person who
witnessed the transformation of the place from its old glory.
Both
ideas would show art but with different impact. Artists may agree to so many
things but they don’t necessarily think alike. In a hyperbolic comparison, some
think vertically and some horizontally.
But one
thing is for sure, each artist will always see an art from every scenery. Some
would focus on a single shape or image while others consider the whole scenery.
Some would focus on a single mountain concentrating on its shape with the sun
setting in the background. Another would shoot the wide skyline showing its glorious
transformation from blue to reddish orange with the group of mountains in the
horizon. Another would attempt to combine them all in a single frame, a unique mountain
shape as the foreground, and a background of a thousand mountains in the
horizon and the changing hue of the skyline above them.
What
artists do have in common is their way to communicate to the people in a
non-linear way. Their images would grab attention and merit hours of discussion
by critics and fans alike. For me, art is not just an expression but more of a
way to show people how you see things.
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