Transformations

I just had another look on the photos traveler (Traveler Taj Terpenings http://www.travelerphotography.com/) made some time ago.
It’s interesting to see that they completely resist to go along with my “gap – personality - social context” theory (http://slackline-berlin.blogspot.com/2006/09/my-very-favourite-slackline-picts.html):


(http://www.travelerphotography.com/)

• They are not about a gap! Not about a spatial relation, - not about the immediate challenge, - not about the slackline! He cuts it out!
• They are not about the personality either! As faces are blurred and hardly recognizable.
• They do feature some social contexts, but this seems to be quite a peripheral aspect.

You recognized what’s happening to the figures in the photos?
They get .. ..

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.. penetrated by the sun ..



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.. rinsed by visible air ..


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.. bended by trees ..


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.. surrounded by the sky

-they’re like a ball in a game of forces; - part of an ongoing fusion with their ambience. They do not appear to walk to the end of the slackline, - they still strive – but they get touched and overwhelmed by mysterious forces.
He tries to expose a metaphysical reaction we haven’t recognized that’s taking place, pointing to the transformations we undergo in these moments.
I found two pictures on his website that go along nicely with this motive:


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-don’t know what exactly the figure’s doing there, and who it is. But he’s on the edge of something transcendent happening to him!


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-by what she’s doing - at that moment – she melts with her ambience. ..she transforms - she’ll be different afterwards!