The Barn in Your Dreams
HDR image by Trey Ratcliff, Creator of Stuck in Customs. Sold in Limited Editions of 250.
When we think of a barn in our heads, it's not just a series of shapes and textures... it's every barn we've ever seen - it's every weather condition we've seen the barn encountering - it's every feeling and emotion we were encountering at the time - it's imagining living in and around the barn - and it's also empathizing with the barn itself, imagining what it must be like to be a barn. So most of this is on the subconscious level, and it's why a boring, plain, predictable photo of a barn, while nice, does not really ever evoke anything deep in the viewer. Once you flip a few bits and allow the brain to make mistakes in interpreting an image, it allows some personal emotional context to come into play, letting the photo become more about the "viewer" and not about the photo itself.
Image ID # 11031
