#visual metaphor

[nemfrog]

The artist's brain. Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia. v.2. 1924.

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[toasttestified]

Crashing into my world like a comet.

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[vanpeltfoto]

Anhedonia noun

The inability to feel pleasure in normally pleasurable activities.

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A reduced capacity for joy. A flattening of response. A landscape that remains intact but no longer registers. Everything still functions. Nothing feels.

(Photo: d.)

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[queenmelodis]

[sovagabesto]

poster series: hamlet

this one was more inspired by the swiss style — though elements of the polish poster school are still there.

instagram: al.sovagabesto

[line2j]

[s-skiba-filmmaker]

This collage brilliantly literalizes what Susan Sontag spent entire books explaining—that cameras don't capture reality so much as violently fragment it into possessable slices—by having a vintage camera physically project shards of Tokyo (neon Shibuya, Tokyo Tower, Mount Fuji) like some kind of memory grenade, which is either the most honest representation of photography ever made or proof that Japanese artists simply refuse to let a metaphor stay metaphorical when they could make it look this cool.

[dreamlab]

The Silent Majority

For every figure that stands in the light, there is a shadow cast by history, reminding us that the game is won long before the final move is seen.