New Year's Child

[Ted Byrne]

Sleep is inherently abstract. It abstracts all sensation from reality. Which is both its appeal and its weakness.



An additional thought re. New Year's Child; I am an economist and a business writer. From that perspective the past decade was unsettling. My worries emerge when I wrestle with the kickoff of a new decade. Perhaps some might write political essays about what's coming, and how it might be re-channeled by 'experts'. But those essayists will deal more in ideas than feelings. Ideas are what I do in my writing... in my images it is feeling that sniggles through. In New Year's Child, you may correctly sense my feelings of portentous uncertainty. Art without wonder is merely craft... right?

Premonitions may be proved correct or not... Feelings, unlike premonitions, are always "real," don't you think? 

[eob]

Feelings are most definitely always real. You don't need anybody to validate your feelings... I am no economist, but my feelings about the future are similar to yours (uncertainty, apprehension, anxiety).

I love just about everything about this photo: its composition, lighting, the baby's uneasy pose that makes it look like a discarded doll, and the post-processing that serves every bit of its purpose for this particular photo.

[aprilS]

the baby's uneasy pose that makes it look like a discarded doll

And the feeling that things are shaken, unsettled, on infirm ground.

It's curious to be drawn into a seemingly charming picture of a baby in what reminds me of "grandpa's chair", and then be so disturbed.

I wonder, where is everyone?

[habakuk]

Forgotten, put aside, left alone... this is a very creepy and sad shot to me. So much life should be in there and so little of it comes through to me. A very powerful shot, Ted!

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