The Bride and the Butterfly Hunter by ArtPearl
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Description
This image is based on a play with this name written by the Israeli playwright Nissim Aloni.
Its about a young bride (called Mee) who run away from her wedding to a park. She meets a man who takes every Wednesday afternoon off work to come there and hunt butterflies. The play consists of their dialogs and monologues. Nothing evolves or gets resolved.
It wasnt the storyline or th details of their conversations that affected me so much. It was the situation, the futility of it all and the melancholy air - neither of them felt they belong where they came from, but they obviously did not belong where they came to either. Although they had much in common in that respect, they didnt 'find' each other or even help each other either. Just two lost people in the middle of nowhere relevant and nowhere significant to go...
Needless to say there where no robots and it wasnt in a desolate place, and there were no weird flying fish, but this is my take on the situation and the feelings.
Technical info:
The hunter is based on Daz SteamMech with M3 head added by me. Butterfly net modeled by me.
I morphed the bride (V4) and added Mask's Pure Skin textures and the dress is Esha's butterfly dress (both from the marketplace here) Destiny hair (Daz)
Fish are from Vue and Poser -I morphed some of their fins into wings.
All of the textures were modified by me to some degree or another.
Please leave a comment about what the image makes you feel and think, and/or about any artistic or technical issues.
Means a lot to me specially on this image, thanks.
Comments (16)
axolotl2
A very imaginative scene, the colour and the pose of the bride suggest a kind of sadness, like an unhappy romantic love story ............
ledwolorz
Fantastic scene and wonderful work.
Thelby
Very Surrealistic!!!
Rutra
I like it, it has a dreamy feeling. A wild dream. I like what you've done with the fish and the mech, all very imaginative. The couch looks great. The jellyfish seem to belong to that sky. As to what this means to me... well, it generally helps to translate the image to words. Let's see... There's a girl sitting on a satin couch in the middle of a purple desert, impatiently waiting for her mech buttler to catch some flying fish. She seems to have more than one couch so this desert could be her home. I can tell she's impatient by her closed right fist and her slanted pose. The mech seems to be in a hurry, and I'm not surprised, that lady isn't there just for fun...
ragouc
Great surrealistic scene. Well done.
JOELGLAINE
I'm blank. It's good. I had tragic news overnight and apparently I can't think right. The piece is trying to talk to me, but anxiety had made my muse deaf and blind. I;ll look again in a week or so.
DukeNukem2005
The perfect image! Remarkable idea! An excellent composition! This work of art very much is pleasant to me!
bogart137
A very peculiar though common situation these days; the characters are facing the same circumstance, but they do not communicate. She doesn´t seem to be very excited about what he is doing; and he doesn´t concern about her indifference either. They coexist, but are not related. The only thing that seems to unite them is the circumstance of being at the same place _ I´m not sure if they are sharing the same time. Wonderful metaphor of personal relationships. It reminded me of Antonioni, master of the alienation, and of isolated people in modern world . From the technical point of view, it´s impeccably well made.
npauling
An imaginative piece and I love the colouring of the background. Well done.
furuta
Fantastic image. Oh? flying fishes? great idea!!
kahun.hida
ファンタスティック、素晴らしい。
kobaltkween
i love bogart137's comments, and i'd like to go further, and mention how the fish are ignoring both characters, but seem to be almost entirely in pairs. as if they represent a natural but idealistic pairing that places its actors outside and beyond their environment. the mechanical man's pursuit of the fish reminds me of a story called "The Wedding Cake Couple," which is about an ordinary (somewhat nebbishy) man married to a shrewish woman whose only joy is going to museums and desecrating masterpieces with nail polish. he's haunted by the perfect couple; he sees them every day no matter where he is. eventually their presence destroys him. i love how the chair seems reflective and metallic, like the man, and how the woman's pose and expression communicates a sort of numb hopelessness. the mechanical man is so awkward (is he falling apart?) that it seems impossible for him to catch one of the fish. i especially like the wave carved dunes and how they connect to fish. i also like the choice of fish over of butterflies. maybe it's just me, but i feel that fish have a more internal symbolism, perhaps because deep waters and oceans are supposed to represent the subconscious. i'm not sure how the mountains in the background fit into the story, but i'd be interested to hear. and just personally, i love the colors! beautiful work.
AnAardvark
Great image. I like the organic feel to the ground.
blankfrancine
What I think is an empty chair on the left almost looks like human limbs, someone crouching or kneeling.Like others, i sense a mood of disconnectedness,each creature trying to survive in a desert. The M3 head morphed onto the steam mech is a far out touch! Excellent.
originalkitten
excellent!
clam73
nice imaginative and surreal composition.....I really like it!!