Not a Utopian World

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Not a Utopian World
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Ramesh
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Commentby falakvasa on Thu Dec 04, 2014 9:45 am

The title interests me a lot because I'm currently reading the book Utopia itself. It's interesting how the term was originally invented not to talk of a perfect world, but to actually critique present-day society. It was people's perception that made it seem like a perfect world. In fact, Utopia actually had several flaws. But because it was foreign, unknown, it was rejected as being unreal. Then it becomes more about how we alienate ourselves from foreign things. In the image too, imperfection or alienation makes us feel comfortable. But show somebody a huge perfectly symmetrical pattern of leaves and they will try to find that irregularity; that imperfection that makes it real. What's even more ironic is that we chase this idea of perfection; as seen in architecture or elsewhere.

Sorry for the rant, but the image speaks of a lot of things that I can really connect with. Great stuff.

Commentby ramesh_adkoli on Fri Dec 05, 2014 10:37 am

Thanks Falak for your views. That's, in a nutshell, a study of human mind: its refusal to accept what "IS".

Commentby Swayamsiddha on Thu Dec 11, 2014 8:51 pm

Very nicely composed imaged. I feel black and white works wonderfully for this image.