Eros and The Pain of Love X

Cupid is the Roman god of love. He is the counterpart of the Greek god called Eros, the god of erotic love, the painful desire of what is not... more

by Marcio Faustino

Title

Eros and The Pain of Love X

Artist

Marcio Faustino

Medium

Photograph - Film Photography

Description

Cupid is the Roman god of love. He is the counterpart of the Greek god called Eros, the god of erotic love, the painful desire of what is not possessed, of what is somewhere else, inciting the imagination about the absent desired other.

Her eyes gazing the void while she is deep immersed in thoughts. Her hands as trying to reach and hold the pain inside. As Siri Hustvedt points out, the somatic experience induced by thoughts are no less real than direct somatic experiences out in the world. Or as Hannah Arendt said, every emotion is a somatic experience. The source of our imagination and thinking are our feelings. Our feelings are the interpretation and meanings given to what our body senses experience. According to Antonio Damasio, the mind is a product of our body, not a distinct part from it.

The image has a kind of movement, she is not still but moving, either in a bodily sense reacting to her feelings or in a mental sense of the dizziness, caused the mental travel.

Such movement in the image is not only suggested by her body expression and composition but also by the backdrop in a leaning position. The rugged backdrop is a curtain which suggests the scene is in a private setting. We look not as spectators of the scene but as a voyeur of what was supposed to be behind curtains. On the other hand, it also symbolizes a stage background of a performed act, like in a theater, like a fancy sculpture.

This photo was taken with a 100% manual film camera. I use old analogue cameras and film negatives because I like to hand craft my photographs. For this reason they are not meant to be perfect like digital images. You will likely find scratches, fingerprints and dust spots in the photo. It all belongs to my art photography. The film negative was developed by me. It was handcrafted before being digitized. My photographs are not about something, the film negative and the form is not an accessory for a theme. The photo is the art, it is the thing.

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April 4th, 2020