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Parental Blues

This is a surreal photograph of Molly sleeping upside down with Charlie. As you can see looking closely, Charlie's hand is detached from his body, the blue tones accentuating his and Molly's features in an outerworldy ambience. I found the deep hues of blue contrasting with the earth tones of this uncanny photograph offering unusual and unfamiliar visual imagery. Since it may be difficult to identify the images in this complex photograph, the pink dots on Molly's nose on the bottom of the photo and Charlie's head on the top, both located left of center may help to identify the images in this surreal setting. Focus to locate Charlie's floating hand. I did this as an experiment knowing it is an alternative reality and hope some of you find it appealing. It is fun and often amazing to explore different realities like the Flemish painters Bosch and Brueguel did in the 17th century. I once taught a course in Psychology about the Unsconscious using slides of Bosch's masterpiece triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights and many other images of his contemporaries. My fascination with the surrealists also added rich content to the study of imagery in the complex texture of our unconscious lives.

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Rachel Terry 19 Feb 2008

How did you do this? It's fascinating.