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'The Wall'

velimirPosted for Everyone to comment on, 5 years ago3 min read

We are able to imagine things that appear to be more real than the ones that are real. Unreal can sometimes also grant us far more pleasure than the reality around us. Is this a mistake, an error of human judgement? Might be, but I'll not go into this. There is a whole library of philosophy books dealing with matters of what is real and what's not. We all see the obvious outcomes, so let's talk about them to make things less vague. We all know that there are people who change their ordinary lives for living as an entity in imaginary worlds of online games and that there are people giving away life for drug produced visions and sensations, even though they are aware of dreadful effects of drugs on their mind and bodies. The list easily goes on with another line for every vice there is. Human minds are so easily deceived by imaginary pleasures.

I portrayed a blue, cold surrounding and a wall looking way more attractive than the rest. What I had in mind with this photo was to point out that we are all aware of a fact that a wall is a wall and no shining warm lights can exist in there, but that wall's surface is attracting us anyway. We cannot stop looking at it, and trying to figure out what is there and why is it so. I love the play of warm and cold colours and their interaction with the shadows. The atmosphere of a cold evening for everything outside the wall against an imaginative warm, maybe even romantic lights on the wall.

If you turn your attention to the shadows, you'll realize that they are the only thing separating the cold surrounding from the attractive warmth of the wall's surface. The shadows represent a thin line, one's got to keep walking on if one is to enjoy the vision, and not be completely drawn into believing in the existence of an unreal pleasure. What you believe is real, is what actually - is real. There is no other reality, apart from the one you believe in. But, that is a whole another story... :D

What we know for sure is: whatever you believe to be real has the power to take you to the sun or drown you in deep waters, and that every moth is attracted by the flames.

Enjoy! :)

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