Photo Manipulations by Christophe Gilbert
copyright Christophe Gilbert
Look at this in negative and see squirming, desperate maggots
seeking to consume the fresh young flesh of a dead woman but yet she looks
enraptured so this may not be so. Switch
perspective and see spermatozoa, swimming to the ova, each hoping, if they had
such ability to feel and aspire, to fertilise and procreate. Look again, are these
not the wrinkles of the brain surrounding the pearl that is the hypothalamus,
the reason for our waking and walking and thinking and feeling?
When the image is enlarged some force beyond renders it dark,
forbidding, the hair like Medusa’s locks, so many snakes to poison man. In death
she brought forth Pegasus, the winged horse of poetic inspiration and Chrysaor,
the giant with a golden sword, so is this image one of hope for mankind?
Disturbing, so white, so black, a puzzle obscene and
beautiful, a perfect tessellation of form and shape.
To read more interpretations please click here.
You gave us some interesting viewpoints here. Thank you for keeping our grey cells working. :)
ReplyDeletewow...def unique and cool perspectives...the maggots and spermitazoa esp...as you made me see them....very cool take...
ReplyDeleteokay, very cool take on this image -- thanks for making me look and look again. Great magpie!
ReplyDeleteImaginative thinking here. I hope you haven't handed freebies to other Magpie writers.
ReplyDeleteQuite creepy!
ReplyDeleteA very clever eye you have... I would never have seen that!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photograph. I went to the site and he is a fantastic photographer. For me the woman in the photo looks like she is happy and safe, as if the men around her were guarding her.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the introspective search of the prompt you have posted here. Your ideas are both imaginative and grounded in myth and science. In the end, your mathematical connection to tessellations, showed excellent form.Thank you for sharing these insights. =D
ReplyDeleteWow, Janice, this is a fabulous take on the prompt. You have blown me away here, and instead of being sorry I couldn't write something, I'm glad I didn't try.
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff.
K
It is all of that and more. I found it a disturbing, yet interesting image, one hard to write about. Medusa I saw and also images from Inferno but must admit, spermatozoa swimming to the ova I did not see. And that one is perhaps the best take of all!
ReplyDeleteI like what you found in this weeks prompt.
ReplyDeleteIt is a puzzling image. And I can see every one of your takes on it.
ReplyDeleteIt is a bizarre image but you have brought meaning to it Janice. As I said to Stafford, it reminded me of earthworms, so maggots is close!
ReplyDeleteIsabel x
Wonderful points of view on this picture. You're right - it's both grotesque yet beautiful...
ReplyDeleteThat is really good, I am full of admiration. I disliked the photo so much I didn't bother.
ReplyDeleteI saw it as squirming worms and didn't go any further.
Such intensity. Does the picture justice.
ReplyDeletethanks for all the options
ReplyDeleteThis is incredibly creative ...
ReplyDeleteI thought I'd posted a comment. I actually came back for a second read. Incredible - the read, not the missing comment! Very tasty indeed.
ReplyDeletePerspective is indeed everything, very well written.
ReplyDeleteGreetingz Jabblog, It is funny how the imagination can play tricks on the mind...ur main premise seems to be that something pure is being invaded by something impure...as if there exists no mutual collaborative spirit in all of this. I tend 2 differ. But that's the nature of a controversial image awakening latent instincts. Ur take on this is interesting 2 say the least. :-)
ReplyDeleteto use your words, disturbing and beautiful
ReplyDeletehaunting suppleness
Oooo I like that photo.
ReplyDeleteWonderful observations...
ReplyDeleteI immediately thought of Medusa.
ReplyDeleteThanks for taking my mind to so
many possibilities.