Artículo de Deborah Lawrenson "The Garden of Earthly Delights"
The Garden of Earthly Delights
“I finally went blind when I was thirteen years old, and it was the loss of my sight that took me to places I might never have seen.”
Distortion of vision is a recurring theme in The Lantern, whether that is real or metaphorical blindness, or the fear and uncertainty of doubting what one sees. Visual illusions can be produced deliberately, as with a zoetrope, the cinematic cylinder that makes pictures appear to move, or the eyes can dissolve the world in common ways – by myopia, for example.
This mesmerizing abstract photograph is titled The Garden of Earthly Delights. It is by Leovi, a Spanish photographic artist whose work I have come to know and appreciate over the past few months. For me – though others may see very different images – there is a Pre-Raphaelite quality about this piece: rich Victorian stained glass windows; a silken flow of robes, draping into darkness. A woman is lying back in the top left quarter, and in the play of water and glassiness and light there are shades of Millais’ Ophelia drowned in the stream of flowers.
If the point of these abstracts is to induce a sense of infinite possibility in which the only boundary is the limit of the imagination, this one seems to me a perfect illustration of the imagination itself, and of the fearful distortions inherent in loss of sight. Because part of the draw of this picture is a powerful frisson of the unknown. Who has not, at some point, experienced a visual disturbance – whether an unexpected trick of the light, or a blind spot caused by staring too intently at a light or fixed point – and feared that something was wrong, that the effect might be permanent?
And here that is (though again, perhaps only to me, with my particular preoccupation) distilled into this beautiful but treacherous scene, with its underwater quality, cut off from salvation, as the river weeds wave and the world above of air and light is slipping away.
The second abstract makes me think of amber, and vintage perfume bottles from the Art Deco era; the possibilities that this image, in a form of synaesthesia, somehow holds an opulent scent. The colours are warm and subtle, the kind of shades that compare with blushful fruit: peach and apricot, raspberry and plum. What does it depict? I don’t know. Leovi never tells us, though he does occasionally give titles.
But these pictures make us think, and the very act of staring into their essence relates to the loss of sight - the examination of objects ever closer to the eye to search for meaning.
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Comentarios
Ella lo describe de forma tan maravillosa que se me ocurre poco más que añadir, lo que está claro es que cada una de tus obras son fuente de inspiración, te cuelas y puedes soñar y sentir.
Enhorabuena por este reconocimiento tan merecido.
Besos.
Greetings Sabine
Cindy
http://dibujosdegerardogc.blogspot.com/
The Mind can play tricks..
yvonne
Besos xoxoxo ♡
Un lujo cada trabajo tuyo, te felicito!
The second one has some of my favorite colors and shades and looks vintage, also very beautiful!
Saludos y un abrazo.
Thanks for the follow! (I'm not far from you - in Portugal :) )
Bom Domingo!
These images are so beautiful!!!! And the title speaks for itself. Great title.
Leovi, I wish you all the best!!!!!!!!!
A hug.
· Leovi is a creative photographer. Glad to see your work in this interesting blog.
Al menos, eso creo y por eso lo escribí allí.
· un abrazo
CR & LMA
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Felicidades.
No tengo esa capacidad de análisis tan profundo pero te diré que admiro tu obra y que disfruto descubriendo aquello que mis ojos me quieren mostrar.
Mucha suerte, te lo mereces.
Abraçades
Besos
Ramón
Saludos.
There is no limit on imagination ...
You really are GREAT!
Beautiful.
Greetings
Sabes que esta serie Z, es la que más me gusta (y si no lo sabes te lo digo ahora).
Me quedé colgada de la foto 1153, que me pareció desde que la ví,algo especial.
No me extraña que haya escogido una de esta serie.
Uff vaya rollete que te he metido, nada que enhorabuena y me alegro mucho por ti.
Un beso
Have a nice week.
Greetings from,
Berit.
I would to smell
I would like to touch the kindness
to embrace the leaves newborn
I would that the world
was to the world
I wish I were a butterfly
to fly wherever it may pose
the tired wings
I wish I could, and perhaps
if I just keep on dreaming ..
Have a great week my friend, kiss
me defiendo un poco, y de algo me he enterado.Muchas felicidades,me alegro mucho.Besos
Esta nueva imagen me hace imaginar siluetas coloridas, sensuales,sutiles...
Que maravilla logras con tus abstractos...abres la imaginación de quien mira tu obra.
Saludos australes, amigo!
Please have a good new week.
daily athens
sigo enamorada..
de tus propuestas (=
y.. gracias x pasar x mi espacio
te dejo un link donde puedes
escuchar y conocer.. a:
patricio rey y sus redonditos de ricota son una banda de rock argentino, que ha revolucionado la musica x sus letras abstractas y su musica distinta.. te invito a conocerlos en ♥
http://www.mundoredondo1.com.ar
beso ;)
con sus pliegues
que da el andar suave
Saludos.
Sill
Every your photo, it is a surprise!
Congratulations !!!
Un abrazo
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beautiful images here...