Chapter Four: Illusions

In chapter four of our text Mary Stewart talks about the illusions in artwork of space, motion, time passing, etc.
We talked about David Hockney's montages recently in class, and the book references them again, as an example of the illusion of time passing in "fracture space".

I love that you can glance at a photo montage or mosaic like this one and easily imagine the movement and the passage of time simply from a few still images placed together artistically.

I was thinking about the concept of representing time in a photo, and I thought of an idea of dancers again. (Dancing seems to be a common theme with me and photo montages... I might have to play with that idea... )

SO ANYWAYS. Thinking about dancing along with time, got me on a tangent. The beauty of dancing never fades with age, but the bodies of dancers will eventually fade. And I feel like this photo below represents that idea quite well. The spirit and past of a dancer will always remain, even when the ability to perform is long gone.