Interesting! Monochrome makes it for me .. like cluster of Igloos or Eyeballs!!! .. I think, giving scale would have restricted our imagination.
Tfs.

The monochrome conversion is amazing and grey tonal range is just on spot, very soothing selection of the range. though I am not sure here, but I would want to see more foreground there as left out wholes are facing towards the foreground. So rather than background i would have left space in front.

@Saurabh Desai

Yes, Sir…….a very good comment that makes me explain my vision further and it gives me more space to throw some further light on my ‘seeing the world’ and ‘my fine-art-sense’ of how I see the world around me that reflects my inner world.

We have devastated and dilapidated past (background of the image)…..we have lost rural ‘homes’ (cocoons on the tree-trunk) made out of mud, cow-dung and cow-urine with a specific and peculiar ethnic fragrance that I really love very much. When I go to my village and smell the dust of my village mixed with cow-dung and cow-urine; the whole my childhood, my ‘mud-home’ gets revived before my sight.

These mud-homes would invoke happy, simple and innocent homely feelings and emotions. The dwellers of these homes were spacious in their hearts though they were living in small homes…….I have been witnessing these homes emptying one by one, vanishing day by day….now no more ‘homes’ left (foreground of the image) in my village due to migration because of scarcity of water, unemployment, craze of urban life….the memory of the left ones has become so louder in my heart that I find no space ahead of my sight (foreground-In future). These homes have come forward as my memory. I didn’t keep enough space though they are facing foreground to show the importance and significance of these symbolic homes. I tried to show this through keeping background space indicating the destruction of these homes in past breaking the normal visual rules of photography. I go beyond set rules and traditional visual mind-set, thus, to bring the touch of ‘fine-art’ to my vision as I understand and perceive.

But someday, in this blind run of ambitions in life, the so called urbanization, craze; we would need to come back to our own roots once again if we want our roots to get established in our real ‘homes’. That is why this title- ‘…hollow homes: coming back soon…’ And the music track embedded is by Chinmaya Dunster, a Sarod player whose compositions incorporate elements of Celtic and Hindustani music. He is an active environmentalist and performs concerts to foster awareness for saving ecosystems and wildlife, adds much life and depth to the aesthetics and poetics to this image. I hope I am able here to make some sense out of this write up some way.
Thank you very much, Sir…

Regards….

gave me a sense of skulls and genocide .....khmer rouge