Industrial Remnants
A deserted carbonic acid factory... In
the Western world the industrial era is mostly in the past... However, some companies in the West establish new factories in developing countries, by
economic and environmental reasons...
Industrial Remnants is one of 14 artworks in the multimedia exhibition Carbon Footprints - with art by Unda Arte and music by Armand Gutheim - shown in Coimbra, Portugal, February 2013. The main theme concerns the environment and our lifestyle, explicitly and implicitly...
A Different Ambience of Black
Is this an exterior or an interior..? What you see is actually a wall inside a house... A building without a roof..!
Hyperrealism is sometimes claimed to be the characteristic mode of postmodernism (for example Jean Baudrillard in Simulations, 1983). In the realm of the hyperreal, the distinction between simulation and the "real" disappears...
Crime novels/psychological thrillers, crime television series etc. may, at times, influence our view of black/darkness... These kinds of genres are often inspiration sources - also in everyday life...
In certain expressions, "dark" denotes something destructive, scary and/or depressive. These expressions are popular - easy to use - in the media. This may be contributing to the survival of the particular associations...
Especially in regions with relatively few sun hours, it is important to note that more or less creepy, obscure associations concerning black are neither natural nor deterministic... See Ambience below, where we go beyond this, and Struggle with God, another example of hyperrealism.
Ambience
As emphasized under "About" on this home page, it's sometimes credible to interpret darkish/grayish nuances more or less positively... It's really too simple to say that such nuances are automatically depressive/destructive. Even you may gain by thinking more positively about darkish/grayish nuances - especially if you happen to live in a country that is quite rainy and/or dark...
How do you feel when you're looking at this picture..? In our minds, the ambience here is calm, poetic, secure... A lot of children are not afraid of the dark, for example at home... There may be an adult outside this picture; the contact may be trustful. In what way may a wider context of this kind alter the interpretation..?
The child may be saying something here - what..? However, we think that this child feels that the adult is listening.
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