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I'm torn, when I have a look at this work. Torn between admiring a great idea and concept and having the feeling that there is something which is disturbing the picture's harmony for me.
The point is,...I'm no expert. I'm not art-educated at all. So all I could use as an explanation is what I feel.
Which at the end is pointless if it comes to critique an artwork.
And there's too much to like in there as to damage that with senseless nitpicking...
What I do like is its overall structure. The way you integrated the different frames around the "statue" and how perfectly they work together proportionally. And I do like as well how the light is falling on the statue from ...heaven as it seams. And I do like her pose which for me is transferring a mixture of "being right here" and "being lost in a different world"....and that's what statues are, right?
And the grey-scale is perfectly supporting all that.
So...at the end it's another great work from you. And I should reflect thoroughly why I needed 5 days to realise that
"the negatives"... there are no real negatives in your picture. Else I had mentioned them after making such a noise about my comment.
What I first thought was that the statue might not be prominent / large enough in proportion to the framing around her. But after having it seen on your homepage in a larger version, the picture did work much better. And the only thing which was left was that high grass in the foreground which is distracting a little from the straight view to the centre and to where the viewers focus wants to go.
However..this is not at all "negative".
And for sure it is no reason to become a photoshop-manipulator.
I am known and feared and even hated for manipulating almost all my pictures (no matter whether I'm doing illustrations or photos) and I don't care. That is just my way of working. But I fully understand and respect and even love if someone says he'd never want to do that. It would be boring to death if we would all make the same stuff in the same way.
So...like a lot of your other work, I like this one too.
And I'm looking forward to your "Helmut Newton" stuff (even though I did not yet found a real approach to his work).
If you want to see a collection of Newton's work, try and get hod of a reproduction of 'Sumo', or alternatively a less bulky volume 'Works', both published by Taschen.
and the b and w just really makes it look great.
Thanks for sharing!