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Bravo Mistress!
Insanity believes they are sane, while sanity believes they are insane, but who can say which is which?
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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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In a world where the digital itself had become the mainstream, she like others, had been relegated to being spoon-fed every waking hour, every byte society thought as worthy, via the media around her.
The vision here is rather unique, whether intended or not, what could have been the standard 3 for a "slapped together" idea, turned out to be a 4 for it social implications. I could have gone another half-star if we could have seen a bit of the face displaying the madness itself. For those implications, let’s get to...
Originality.
The newsprint on the walls makes this image. The nutty chick writing on the floor is irrelevant; it is her oppressor, the ever-present media control in Western society that is stealing the thunder from the model. Again, whether intended or not, when you look at the different forms of information being displayed on the walls, one can understand how the poor girl lost her mind! She just couldn't take it all in anymore, it was just too much, she was never designed to be some storage device for society to fill daily with the newest line of relevant dribble.
That lack of face, that lack of personal application of "madness", cost the Technique a full star from a deserved 4. I would have liked to have seen the head tilted at a right angle towards the camera, and the emotions of the girl just laughingly crazy as she was goofy with the insanity of society itself. The lighting would have added to the focus of face, as one could imagine a door being opened into an isolation room, with the incoming light illuminating the face. Quite the missed opportunity indeed…
The impact could have been a 4 1/2, but again, that loss of personal application with the face cost yet again. As I stated in technique, the impact here is not an angry violent one, it is a loss of reality, a loss of what is fact or fiction, not right or wrong. A laughing insanity, one that cannot be easily controlled as an angry one can. The artist had a brilliant idea, and with further thought of a more long term vision, it could have easily been a 4 1/2 star across image.
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