Towards a new life

If you remember this picture, you will remember that I used it in 'Paintography and Wassily Kandinsky' post few weeks ago. There I applied paintography to the entire image and pushed it further to abstract it, getting closer to Wassily Kandinsky's abstractions.

But there was something else that also caught my eye. To start with, I could not resist the small red buds. Their colour stood up so sharply against the white wall behind.

So fresh, so pure hinting the beginning of life...

However, at this stage, the string around and under also begun to catch my eye..

And so, all of a sudden, the attention shifted from a dream-like image of the red buds to the textured and sharp detail of the string.

The red buds started to blend with the surroundings; they became the background allowing the attention to switch to something else, something so trivial that so easily became the subject.

Focusing on the string only, the question is, do I need the colour?...

Cropping closer around the string and de-colouring, the image entered new dimension, new life.

And the circle of life continues. In a slightly different way than what we normally understand by these words but why not. Who says that there is only one meaning of the words 'new life'?

First we had the red buds, something that could be associated with new life. Now we have an image that was born from a journey of an image towards a new picture. When you think about it, new life can be found everywhere. This is just a food for thought for this week. Have a great time and see you next time. K-)