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.
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