Water visions – Vortex imaginationis

Water visions - Vortex imaginationis My photograph tries to show how beautiful the abstraction of clean water is in combination with light and shadow. It also tries to explain how crucial for all of us is to keep this precious element in public hands. This photograph is the first shot of my new series, where I try to explore the fusion of light and shadow with a water environment. I also noticed that this phenomenon deconstructs the observed motif. It is close to the idea of the Russian formalists who were trying to change scenes of everyday reality into artificial visions. We can find similar artistic approaches in photography throughout the whole 20th century. One of them was Vorticism. It was an art direction where the associate photographers did not care about the time, space, or story in their taken images. They only played with light and shadow. A photograph was more important in a visual than a substantive sense (Vortograph - Alvin Langdon Coburn). For me, the content is equally important as the visual sense. In the new series, I will try to warn society about the seriousness of the water privatization issue through the visual uniqueness of my water visions. Why uniqueness? Because every taken image presents just a glimpse of a time. It appeared only at the captured moment. In the next, there was a different image with a different combination of reflections, shadows, and water surface shapes. I took all shots in a blur mode. So, what we see are bokeh images.