tom chambers – prom

101 Responses to “tom chambers – prom”

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• Lara Day

  January 13, 2009 at 12:33 pm

  Whether or not an artwork stirs your emotions is entirely subjective. For my part, I like this image a lot. I found it startling first, then intriguing – it made me want to learn who made it, why it was made, what it means to the artist, what it means to me.

  I don’t have a problem with it being a montage, because really, aren’t we always being fooled by art? By that I mean: doesn’t art exist to fool us into thinking, feeling and responding in ways that wouldn’t ordinarily be available in reality, even if it happens to draw directly from real life (as traditional or “pure” photography does)?

  Of course, the viewer has to be complicit in the deception. But if allowing yourself to be fooled means opening yourself up to new combinations of imagery, new combinations of thought, and yes, new combinations of feeling, then surely that’s no bad thing.

  Thanks Burn!