Sunday, August 3, 2008

14: !Flikr Notes

Wife: Wardrobe (by gingerpig2000)

This image really shows up my lack of good lighting equipment, I have to rely on my normal apartment lighting and the flash. The task, though, was to create an image that people could attach notes to, and there was a suggestion that one could show the contents of one's wardrobe. There was also the restriction that I wanted to include something from yesterday's picture.

Rather than doing the obvious shot of content with me beside it as the owner, I wanted to ensure that I became a part of the picture. Too many of the pictures I hate are 'me standing in front of this building', 'me standing in front of...", so 'me standing in front of wardrobe' was obviously out, but 'me being part of the wardrobe process' in an uncomfortable way that reflects the problems of sharing wardrobe space with someone else having far more clothes, now that expresses something worthwhile.

The result also encompasses a common theme of many marriages I know where the wife treats the husband as a mere money-making, picture-hanging driving machine, otherwise an inconvenience who needs to be tidied away while they get on with having a life.

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