Posted February 6th, 2013

Confusion

“Confusion” was the subject for our latest monthly photo assignment at the Whitehorse Photography Club. Along with many other members, I used abstraction to illustrate the theme. There is a natural human compunction to identify everything we see. When we have to ask “What is it?” we are feeling confused and if the label is not supplied then we attempt to resolve our confusion by imagining what it might be, based on our personal experience but also on our personal values. This can release the creative psyche to imagine things that we know are not real but nevertheless are meaningful and satisfying to us. What I see abstractly within this image also embodies a sense of confusion in the imagined subject, but of course your perception might legitimately be very different. Oh, you are wondering what is it, really? It is an extreme close-up of an icicle, photographed in vertical format at almost 1:1 macro to capture the interior textures and patterns, then rotated 90° in the final abstract composition.
Pentax K-5, Kiron 105mm f/2.8 macro @ f/9.5