Here's a fascinating still life. The color and tone are perhaps the most inventive features of the image; they resemble those of historical painters, with dark autumn colors dominating. It's almost as if the color palate was quoted purely from the skins of over-ripe olives. The assortment of strange fruits and vegetables also draws the eye, but they are as visually interesting as they are revolting, leaving the viewer with a mixed set of emotions. I've never seen a still life that tells such a rich tale as this.
This architecture photo is just as much of a mind-bender. The various windows' reflection of the bright white sky turns the building into a technical-drawing lookalike, a bold statement - a statement that seems to be incomplete, considering the large missing sections. Or is this simply a trick of the lens? Regardless, the building seems almost precarious, as if it were standing on a temporal precipice, its brittle structure about to simply collapse under its own weight. Much like the still life, it is at once an intriguing, eye-catching image, and one that gives off a strange, gut-wrenching anxiety.
-Roger Wieand
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