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Hi, Just experimenting. Two things
- wanted to show the parts for the viewer to reconstruct in his mind and imagination
- Done on a pinhole without lens

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Commentby nirlep on Mon May 12, 2014 12:02 pm

Interesting mind maze here Raj. What does one say when after seeing so many sharply rendered, in focus, colorful , perfectly toned images the raw quality of pin hole images becomes a deja-vu. The organic quality of images (minus the one with human presence which impedes the visual flow) and the jigsawed slices make me re-contemplate on how images emerge in our minds.

Commentby Rajkumar on Mon May 12, 2014 2:13 pm

Thanks Sir.
I admit I used the word De-construct rather casually . Not sure why that word popped in my head as I was taking these pictures.

When I got back and did a search I found it to be a Philosophy of breaking logic and literary criticism . Here is what I found. I was amazed that it actually was a prescription for art photography.

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/jbalkin/arti ... nessay.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Some typical paras I have quoted below


“Deconstruction has a broader, more popular, and a
narrower, more technical sense. The latter refers to a series of
techniques for reading texts developed by Jacques Derrida, Paul de
Man, and others; these techniques in turn are connected to a set of
philosophical claims about language and meaning. However, as a
result of the popularity of these techniques and theories, the verb
"deconstruct" is now often used more broadly as a synonym for
criticizing or demonstrating the incoherence of a position. ….”

“The deconstructor looks for the ways in which one term in
the opposition has been "privileged" over the other in a particular
text, argument, historical tradition or social practice”


“Behind these techniques is a more
general probing and questioning of familiar oppositions between
philosophy (reason) and rhetoric, or between the literal and the
figural.”

“……….deconstruction does not
claim that concepts have no boundaries, but that their boundaries
can be parsed in many different ways as they are inserted into new
contexts of judgment.”


“Deconstructive arguments do not
necessarily destroy conceptual oppositions or conceptual
distinctions. Rather, they tend to show that conceptual oppositions
can be reinterpreted as a form of nested opposition”

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Commentby dinesh.ramarao on Wed May 14, 2014 9:51 am

Raj: "conceptual oppositions, oppositions between philosophy (reason) and rhetoric, or between the literal and the figural, deconstruct is now often used more broadly as a synonym for criticizing " - now that you have derived this - what is your relevant context with this set of images ? What do you want to "deconstruct" ?
-RD

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- RD

Commentby Rajkumar on Wed May 14, 2014 8:21 pm

thanks for stopping by RD. Those were a lot of words I found retrospectively and would not say I imbibed them :). Did give me some thoughts though.

As for this image. I would relate it more to this

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“……….deconstruction does not
claim that concepts have no boundaries, but that their boundaries
can be parsed in many different ways as they are inserted into new
contexts of judgment.”
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I tried to show the different parts of the tree in their own right to create a focus on shape and form at the same time within a over all context.
May be I did not succeed here. But this does give me some thought for future experiments .
Any further thoughts are definitely welcome

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Art is about what is inside rather than what is outside


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