Antczak-metaphor

//Revenge of the Goldfish// Sandy Skoglund
This photo grabbed my attention because of the strong contrast between the two complementary colors, blue and orange. I also really like the concept behind the photo, showing that usually goldfish are the ones trapped inside of a bowl with nowhere to go but now it is the humans that are being trapped by the goldfish.

//Untitled// Andy Goldsworthy
I was really intrigued by the simple color scheme and the leading line from the sand to the water made by the rocks. When I first saw this photo, I thought the line represented life, and the sand and rocks represent the events in our lives. Everyone goes through rocky times, but things will get better and smoother like the sand.

//Man in a Bowler Hat// Rene Magritte
I was scrolling through Magritte’s paintings when I saw this one, and it caught my eye because it was a self portrait but a dove was covering the man's face. The metaphor that came to mind when I saw this photo was insecurity, because the man is insecure about his appearance and is afraid to show his true face to the world.

"Man is not truly one, but truly two"
This quote is from a book we read in English, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. In this book, a lawyer named Mr. Utterson is told a strange story about a man named “Mr. Hyde” who know one really knows the identity of but is a strange man who does terrible things. Throughout the story, with the help of a well renowned scientist named Dr. Jekyll and another lawyer named Dr. Lanyon, Utterson sets out to find out who this strange man known as “Hyde” truly is. At the end of the book, it is revealed that Dr. Jekyll made a secret potion that caused him to transform into someone else, that person being Hyde. However, after many times using the potion, soon its power lost control and Jekyll would turn to into Hyde without even drinking the potion. The message in the story was although Jekyll and Hyde had two different appearances, it was the same person controlling them both. In order to achieve the “perfect image”, Jekyll used his alter-ego to his advantage, transforming into Hyde every time he had an angry or evil impulse. This allowed his image as a nice and well respected doctor to remain, while another image was being created of him, a sickly and nasty image, but no one knew it was him. For my photo, I want to take a picture of someone looking into a mirror, but their reflection shows a different expression than the person herself. The face looking into the mirror will be happy and nice, but the face looking back will be mysterious and eerie, or have two faces pictured on one face but one could be transparent in front of the other. Other metaphors that could come from this quote could be related to multiple personality disorder or twins.

**"Happiness can be found in even the darkest of times"**
This is a quote from Harry potter written by Jk Rowling. To me, this metaphor is saying that even if someone is going through very hard times, they can still get back to the happy and lively person they once were. A lot of the photos I took were of my friends whose faces were barely lit up by the candle light. This is portraying them as a sad and hopeless person who would give anything to be happy again. She's staring at the candle and in her eyes you can see pain so by portraying this you can tell she wants to escape the darkness. Happiness is usually represented by light, so her looking into the candle is a metaphor that she is looking at the happy person she one was and she wants to be able to get back to that state.