Response to More Gesture (or is it just blur?)

Strictly speaking there isnB4t an image made which has any emotion except what the viewers put into it. A piece of visual art is a very dead thing - it only comes alive during the trip from the viewers retina through the winding path of his neurons. I once posted a portrait of an old man that IB4ve known all my life. He was always happy and easy-going. In my opinion the portrait reflected his personality, but the responses I got were about hopelesness, the sadness of old age and decrepitude, imminent death etc. I guess part of what makes an image a success is if you hit on something so universal that the viewer is able to attach similar emotions to the image as you do yourself. If you are not able to get any emotions from Jeffs image, it probably says more about your social life than it does about his photograph - no offense intended :)

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