{"id":10302,"date":"2012-12-20T10:06:42","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T14:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=10302"},"modified":"2023-09-06T17:35:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T22:35:05","slug":"the-stories-behind-the-images-exhalation-i-mosquito-point-maine-1997","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/10302\/the-stories-behind-the-images-exhalation-i-mosquito-point-maine-1997\/","title":{"rendered":"We All See Different Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Exhalation I, Mosquito Point, Maine, 1996<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve collected more responses to this image than any other. While they use varied words, most people\u2019s associations share some quality of breath and\/or a divine presence. However, some people\u2019s associations vary wildly.<\/p>\n

One night, at an opening, a man reeking of scotch and smoke approached me and said, \u201cI love your satanic icon!\u201d Surprised, I looked around the room to see which image he was referring to. He directed me to this one. Challenged by his response (It was very different than my intentions), I held to my practice of not sharing my responses to images unless I feel the viewer can maintain and possibly add to rather than replace their own.<\/p>\n

On another occasion, a friend bought a print of this image and surprised his wife with it, saying, \u201cLook! Isn\u2019t it beautiful?\u201d She replied, \u201cYou\u2019re not hanging that in here!\u201d \u201cWhy not?\u201d he responded. \u201cCan\u2019t you see? It\u2019s dirty. It\u2019s an x-ray of someone sitting on the toilet.\u201d It took some negotiation and an extended session of sharing what they saw in the image for him to be able to hang the image in his office.<\/p>\n

The response I treasure most came from a four-year-old boy who stopped in his tracks and caught his breath as he crossed the threshold of the door to the room this image was displayed in. Then he raced to it, waving his arms in the air, \u201cIt\u2019s a giant sneeze!\u201d Touched by his spontaneous outbursts, I tried to reconcile them with my desire to communicate something general, if not specific. I had given the image the working title of Avra, the Sanskrit word for breath. I thought, breath \u2026 sneeze \u2026 close enough. Everyone in my studio now refers to this image as \u2018the giant sneeze\u2019.<\/p>\n

How can other people\u2019s associations inform your work?<\/em>
\nHow many ways can you stimulate viewers\u2019 associations with your images?<\/em><\/p>\n

Read more of The Stories Behind The Images here.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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