Today I want to present a photograph which I took of myself as an art piece.
The photo is simple and captured on my phone without much in the way of effects. However I did find the composition of this scene quite attractive and so I captured it in this photo which I'm presenting today.
It's a little art piece which I called "self-portrait with twin reflection". The colours are a good combination of cool blue juxtaposed with the warm burnt orange. Added to that as the solid frame which captures the picture very perfectly and adds to the sense of composition.
The symmetry is also well accentuated by the position of the pole in the background behind the person in the portrait. Along with that, the branch of the tree in the background above also adds a sense of balance and symmetry to the entire composition.
The main image in the photograph is a person - a hooded figure whose identity is anonymous because we cannot see the details of their face in any way. This carefully takes away any focused on the portrait as being that of any specific person.
Rather, the person is an anonymous participant in the art piece, not for their own personal attention, but merely as an assistant and cameraman to the capturing of this moment of balance. And not only reflection, but double reflection on the moment.
As one zooms in on the photograph, you can see the reflection of the photographer captured on the pane of glass. They are seen holding the camera, but if one looks carefully, one can see just besides this camera another reflection, also squarely positioned. And if one zooms still further,you see the very same camera again.
In this way a double portrait is captured with a single shot. This is a curious and yet strikingly focused and balanced photograph with a sense of irony in the subject matter which adds to the otherwise unassuming anonymous portrait.
In this photograph the photographer has captured his sense of double meaning in the double reflection, while simultaneously including themselves, as well as excluding themselves, by maintaining a sense of anonymity and this allowing the viewer to ponder more deeply on the concept of a reflection within a reflection, as one might a dream or more specifically a lucid dream.
One does not always remember the details of a lucid dream. However if one is able to be there in the moment... in other words being truly lucid as the dream is playing itself out, then one might be able to zoom in, as if paying particular attention and deliberately focusing the attention on the specific concept of interest or concern that might be important on the journey.
Sometimes hidden keys might be left for one as if for example you were a player in the game and came across some buried treasure as you explore the terrain.
By looking at the reflection and seeing the echo of the pattern, one gets the experience of something like a fractal or a Fibonacci ratio, like that of a shell spiralling inward and inward again, in harmonious twist of repeated cycles, one after the other.
Here we have then today a humble offering of a portrait of the artist has but a shadowy reflection of themself.
(Photo my own)