Cellphoto Challenge #10

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Cellphoto Challenge: Cutlass and Grotesque




I once did an entire Fine Art crit on a painting of a sword wrapped in pink satin. It was, unsurprisingly, quite heavy on the sexual metaphor. Of course the most ironic thing is that I was talking total bollocks; Sometimes a sword is just a sword. There's no hard and fast rule saying it must always be a rather quaint euphemism for cock, but the idea is quite endlessly amusing to me so this picture was derived in a similar vein.
This is actually an extreme close up of a section of an abstract oil-pastel of a Howorthia fasciata in bloom, the deep red stripe here bisecting the photograph a representative form of its flowering stem. (Or "cutlass" if you prefer the euphamistic term for its reproductive bits.)
The colours and form are needless to say distorted and an uneasy mish mash of shapes and textures, and it so completely unrepresentative of the simplistic nature of the actual subject that it becomes almost a grotesque parody of itself.

*bows*

Heh. Cutlass...


(Past Challenges can be found Here)

elouesa needs poking with a spork BTW, she's still sitting on 2 photos that haven't yet been posted so go poke her liberally until she does something about it ;p


Current challenges stand as follows:

View: "Nuzzle and Container"

Nem: "Ink"

El: "Chaos and creation" "Fragile and Ventilation" "Marine and Jest"

Me: Challenge me baby! Challenge me!