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[Community Challenge 56] Polar Opposites
(lemmy.world)
Polar Opposites
Theme
Create an image where polar opposites are interacting. For example: fire and water (as in the image), life and death, day and night, happy and sad. The concepts do not have to be anthropomorphized.
Voting process
Everyone can submit their image to this post. At the end of the week all images will be collected and shared in a new voting post wherein people can vote on their favorite image. This will be up for at least 24 hours before a winner is made.
There are no extra points to be earned, OP will decide on a winner in case of a tie.
Rules
- Follow the community’s rules above all else
- One comment and image per user
- Embed image directly in the post (no external link)
- Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged but not required (we’re all here for fun and learning)
- OP will declare winner in case of a tie
- The challenge runs for at least 7 days from now on
- Down votes will not be counted
- Voting and final scoring will be done in a separate post.
Scores
At the end of the challenge the image with the most votes, wins!
The winner gets to pick the next theme. As always, have fun everyone!
Prompt
A baby dressed in a nightgown lays in the center of the image in a crib. The baby is sleeping On the left side stands death incarnate, a skeleton in a black robe holding a scythe. On the right side of the picture stands a beautiful female angel representing life incarnate. She makes a praying gesture. she has a glowing halo around her head. the room is a beautiful kids room.this is confusing
if angel represents good, it's opposite isn't the angel of death or the grim reaper but a demon or satan
if we have grim reaper to left, and let's consider for a moment life and death as opposites, what would represent life on the other side?
I liked it because of the ambivalence.
Death is not looking at the child, He stares at the angel of life as if he is waiting.
You could interpret it this way:
The angel of Life is protecting the child or, in a bigger view, every person from death. If the angel of life abandons us, we enter the domain of death.
I was not trying to go towards a biblical intepretation and i do not see death as evil. Maybe the choice of an angel for "life" was not the best choice.
Edit after a night of Sleep: It is interesting how hard wired religious themes are in ones subconcious. I wonder how i would have depicted life and death with another cultural background.