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Progress, this great heresy of decay.
(Charles Baudelaire)
Freehand, slightly cropped.
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...and in POINT OF SIMPLICITY ISSUE#4 CITY
© by Florian Schmidt
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(Charles Baudelaire)
Freehand, slightly cropped.
Update: some quality enhancement, also available as a print now.
Featured by
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...and in POINT OF SIMPLICITY ISSUE#4 CITY
© by Florian Schmidt
My works are not stock and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
You can follow the trail of the snail also on
Google+ | art limited | Shadowness | last.fm
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The Progress of Consumption.
This photo clearly illustrates a negative view of progress. This is not the futurist's ideal that we think of when we witness the creation of a new skyscraper, or watch as a Mars rover lands on the surface of that far distant planet. This Progress is the progress of a cancer. The progress of consumption of our planet's resources. It is a progress that leaves nothing behind though its advancement may be slow in developing.
The first frame of the window is suggestive of cellular growth, a nucleus with dendrite arms that metastasizes as we advance through the photo, until we reach the last, in which even the frame has deteriorated.
I deducted a star from Originality, because I have seen this type of illustration of stages before and I feel it is near impossible to be completely original at this stage in history. However, I don't feel originality is necessarily the most important feature of a work if there is a powerful vision behind it.
The square format is the only format that would work for this piece, indeed it basically requires it. Likewise, the black and white format is, I feel, a requirement for this photo to really shine. It strips away all the unnecessary 'muddle' of a slow progression to present a stark picture. The title and quote provides an ironic twist. This is "some kind of progress"; a progression to the void where there can be no progress at all.