October 13, 2003
image and text
David Farrell
Great image.
It is from an exhibition at the Photography Centre of Athens.
The link is courtesy of saint in a strait jacket over at DogfightAtBankstown.
Human legs?
Raw knees?
Knees cut through to the bone?
Well, that is how I interpret the image.
This text goes with the image:
"Photographers such as David Farrell from Ireland - his nationality is not unrelated to his goals - give a picture of religion in terms of its most intimate, personal expression. Calm and spirituality dominate these images. The people whom he immortalises in his portraits are believers in every fibre of their being. Serenely, without ostentation. His vision of people and objects converges. His goal is, through a documentary work of modern inspiration, to enhance daily worship in terms of whatever is non-eventful, non spectacular, given over to an evident plastic sense and in a relationship of great proximity with his subjects. Only the feeling of devotion adorns the picture."
I don't see the connection myself.
Calm and spirituality dominates this image of raw knees?
How do you get that?
The image enhances daily worship in terms of whatever is non-eventful, non spectacular?
I would have called image of raw knees spectacular. We are talking sacrifice here are we not?
Yes I would have called this image 'spectacular' too!
Posted by: saint in a straitjacket on October 14, 2003 11:16 PMSIAS
Looking at the image again I reckon it is close to mutilation--and self-inflicted.
It reminds me when I was a young catholic boy in NZ reading the lives of the saints---what stayed in my mind was how they sacrified themselves for Christ.
pain=ecstasy. It is how a religious person transgresses the mundane concerns of an earthly existence.
Posted by: Gary Sauer-Thompson on October 15, 2003 12:39 PM