Judge’s Choice – Photography – Staff and Family Member Category

I was enchanted by this enigmatic abstract featuring understated colors: light pastel-like turquois and subdued violets, with golds, browns, greys, and muted yellows. The diagonal composition utilizing a frothy line running right top to bottom left of center features a strategic opening midway. A sensual invitation or is it a gasp for breath? Does it represent some primal hunger? Is it perhaps instead the unconquerable urge for fluent speech, that most basic of human accomplishments distinguishing us from other sentient life?. What does the image have to tell us? What does the artist want to say? The temporal reality behind the image is less important than the inherent beauty of its lines, light, and color.