Reveling or Revealing?
This 5-minute photo focus challenge at Tate Modern features some revealing twists and turns to revel in
Hi all,
Today’s 5-minute photo focus challenge takes you to this Picasso moment at the Tate Modern museum in London.1
What is being reveled in? What is being revealed?
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Remember, the purpose of these Friday challenges is to let one image, and your study of it, give you an opportunity to pause, reflect, and notice what it stirs — or stirs up — in you.
And best of all — to the degree that there is discomfort involved — letting something stir you up for five minutes without doing anything to fix, change, or manage it brings you closer to clearing it.
The steps and prompts below will help to guide you.
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Take Five — Reveling In or Revealing
Set a timer for five minutes. Study the photo above. As you sit with it, what thoughts, sensations, or ah-has arise? As you sit with it even longer, perhaps uncomfortably so, what do you notice that you didn’t see or feel before?
Use the prompts below to guide you and the comment thread to share your impressions.
What do you see in this photograph?
How does it make you feel?
What does it convey? Reveal? Remind you of?
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From Wikipedia: “Nude, Green Leaves and Bust (French: Nu au Plateau de Sculpteur) is a 1932 oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso, featuring his mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter.”
She seems to be having a fun dream and maybe adventurous, but he is there to steady her in case of nightmares.
Similar nose in the picture - of a man and a woman walking.
And.. a woman with a hump.
Maybe a strange interpretation.