At some point in our lives we shall encounter with a brief visitation with depression. Be it personally, within the family and throughout our friends. Without ruining the festive season, I thought it would be of great importance not to forget these people and post this image up as a mark of respect to them. This image has a strong impact as the life-ring represents the hope in everyone of us, and the rope represents darkness and the loss due to this terrible illness. Both the life-ring and the rope bears equal weight and are equally powerful objects both congruously and in isolation. I would like to think of it as the hope embracing and encasing our darkness and loss.
"More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly." A quote from Woody Allen himself.
I really like this quote as it tells you alot about Woody Allen. He is not all about humour and sarcasm. It makes you wonder does he raid his medicine cabinet for anti-depressants, along with his big stash of aspirin. We can only hope that he never cuts himself as he would only bleed to death due to the large aspirin consumption.
1 comment:
Dear Dung
The life-ring is a poinent symbol indeed. I not sure if looking through a life-ring is possitive view of the world but it is perhaps one we all know and at a certain level more oftern than not. Having looked at it again i believe the second photo is fine the way it is looking quite natural. The first one doesnt say much. You appear to believe in the sybolic power of object. I suggest looking at the work of Joeseph Beuys’s
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