Sorry I have been absent in the forum and comments for the last week or so.Besides the needs of my real job this is what I have be working on for countless hours.... Surrealism per Tedz posting. This image came out of a tremendous amount of frustration with PS7 , Anyone care to comment or interpret on the message I am so poorly trying to convey?

I'm gettin an evironmental kinda message from this, pollution, the abandoned car...and what seems to be a fire of some sort in the distance.

Is the what you've seen on your travels (the stong diagonal line resembles a train or subway to me)

Am I way off here or what?

BTW it really is a THOUGHT provoking image! Great stuff

Joe

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Contemplation, reflection, observation of the world around u....speed of our stupid civilization...always faster (suggested by the train or what looks like a train in movement to me)...perplexe at such shallowness and futility, scared maybe, worried more likely....where r we going like that and what for??? That's all the things that come to my mind when I look at this image! Hope it answered ur question dear! :)

I get frustration out of this image... Frustration that one person alone can't tackle all of the pollution be it noise, water, air or the discarded... Pollution is a real problem, one that needs to be addressed... What kind of world are we leaving our future generations? If that was the message you tried to convey then you succeeded, and wonderfully at that! Brenda :)

ryno, my immediate emotional response was like the view of a prisoner, seeing in memory the world beyond. I see a tantrum of the city and all the problems therein with the peace of the country where and abandoned old car is allowed in the back field and so what if it is there. The city cannot be neglected...people must be there to help each day with its problems, with its people fallout..yet to bring the senerity of even a countryside with abandoned cars is a plus. That is my thought from first heart. Thanks for this post. Tom.

I feel sure it is an Environmental Message...and, also feel You dont give it enough Credit. My Art Knowledge is very limited, and I did wonder why My Own was not being interperated ...now, I see more clearly that it is a Personal thing. Thanks heaps for showing this Ryno...and...thanks for Listening in the first place.

i see it as time passing... the old (car) sitting still contrasted with the industrial, techno times just wizzin over your head there :]

Very cool looking :-)

The industrialization of time jettisoning its way to the future.The streams of motion indicate how fast this is happening.

"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."

I get a feeling of regret or longing. On the commuter train into the city to work, but dreaming of the "good life", slow country days, time to fix that old classic!

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okay not very good at this sorta thing.. symbolism in art is very personal,, l do sense abandoment, isolation, decay, and desolution symbolic of the desert and car.., also reflecting innocence of how life was in childhood..(my be a grandparents car/parents) life is may be predetermined from birth..the path ways inscripted by industrailization and inter city train.. believe this is reflecting on the meaning of life.. from the simiplicities of times past and the fast moving stress of modern living ... this is the beauty of surrealism and symbolic art open to intrupretation to provoke the inner mind.. what ever the personal message beautiful work :)...)))))

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ryno, I may have missed your personal idea completely; yet to me, what I see and feel in this is a good thing. Nice work, for sure. Tom.

Thanks so much for all your thoughtful comments this image. It really made all the work and frustration worth while. The original image posted above is one that I became totally obsessed by. I have never really experienced this before. It was like this picture was talking to me. There was a message just dieing to come out but, I couldn't convey it. I was so sure this car had an amazing story to tell and I just couldn't figure out what it was. My first thoughts were of the glory days when we had no idea of the impact the automobile would eventually have on our planet. Then it shifted to the conflict I personally have with the love of cars, romantic notions I have of the automobile history ; and how the need for oil has caused countless wars and needless deaths and the destruction of our environment. I think you all got it right on the nose with your interpretations. And yes Joe this was on a train trip across the country. I am so honored to be able to share my thoughts and images with such insightful, thoughtful friends:}

Well it seems the effort reaped a Reward and the Credit is all Your Own. salute

Ah yes Jim indeed!! The war for oil!! How pathetic!! I've been saying for many years that very soon Mad Max will become a reality! :(

Oil, time passing, waste? No, No, NO! This peice is all about deranged killers. It's a movie poster! See the killer gets into his car then travels cross country killing, he goes to some industrial city, DEtroit for Example, then his car breaks down. There is a chase scene through the fields outside of Detroit. See the psyadelic slaughter and destruction wrought by this man from the farmland, see flight toward Detroit, and finally see the movie end with a chase through the fields at the abandoned car. Yup, yup. Mighty fine movie poster you have there! I hope you realize RHYNO that I am kidding. I can see what the others noticed but honestly I can see what I described. If you aren't doing it yet I think you can have a good good future in movie PR. Bsteph

LMAO@Brian!! I like that!! ;)

pretty funny... way to let the imagination run!! :]