Realm of Endless Stretches


  • Photographer
    Yoong Wah (Alex) Wong
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    Sabanci University / FASS
  • Date of Photograph
    Oct 2009
Story

Photography is often not simply to capture reflective objectivity but rather to transcend reality by creating something out of what lies before or ahead of us. It stretches the meaning of word, extend thoughts and imagination.
The massive landscape with seemingly endless stretches of dry land, grass land, crops field and deltas can easily exceed our point of view. It is because the wide horizon can generate ambiguities of distance and position.

Our life is very much like a chart or graph where up and down is being plotted through various stages of experiences we had. The stretches of endless landscape are going through the similar experience. It is either through the 'Earth Changes' by a series of natural catastrophic or by human activity. Layers of memory (culture and history) is being stored and accumulated at this very ground that stretches beyond our prediction.

Man often considers himself unique for his unparalleled ability to conceive new thoughts, revise old ones, and live in harmony with the present ones. This sort of view typified man's inveterate belief that he is not just a mere animal but rather a being that has been able to transcend his former bestiality on to a higher plateau of reasoning. On this plateau is an endless plain that stretches beyond comprehension. It is on this plain that all of us grope, find new thoughts, reject them, discover our own, add new ones, and finally, settle with a concept true to our constitution.

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