Lens-Artists Challenge #253 – Fragments

/ Leya

Fragments...yes, our lives are, the world is. Brian of Bushboy is our guest host this week, and he says: ”What has been happening recently is a bit of fragmentation around the world, a disconnect. But we always have been made up of pieces. What I would like to see is some of your fragments.”

I am late to the party, because my life right now is more than fragmentary, sometimes I feel I am dissolving totally. But once again I will try to scramble up the pieces of my self and act like a whole person.

Some thoughts of fragments from me on a warm summer’s day, sitting in my garden.

Fragments of lives lost, going down with the Titanic.

I love using fragments in my photography, it makes us look at the image with open senses, using our fantasy. Drawing our own conclusions, making pictures in our minds.

Not showing the whole picture, the whole background or the whole subject is beautiful and suggestive. I wish that would be used in clothing and model photography as well.

Fragments…can make poetry

Fragments talk to our senses. Early summer of wild orchids in evening light make my heart sing. What fragments make your heart sing?

Fragments put together make a clearer picture of what is happening. Like the words and chapters of a book. Or the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.

A fragment of the facade is gone…but a butterfly made it ”whole” again – gave it a new meaning. One of life’s little wonders.

Fragments of beauty is still there while we are ageing…

Fragments of Love. A great deal of my time now goes to fitting together the fragments of my father’s life. Through photos, letters and talks with his only remaining sister. I kept some of his things to feel closer to him. Photos, his accordion, a shirt, his books, paintings… What are we humans – only fragments of life on earth, life in space, life in the universe.

But it is a good thing to think of our lives as tiny and insignificant. We tend to take ourselves too seriously.

Many thanks to Brian for this thoughtful challenge, and to Donna and her lovely “Bugs” challenge last week. Next week Tina will be hosting LAPC. So, look out for her exciting challenge!

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  2. Your post gifted me with a few tears. I mean that. Tears are tiny fragments of emotions, in this case memories we are deserving of. This post was a treasure. I loved the butterfly because it was a reminder that we too can make something new/whole again. Time… Your last photo was so reflective.

    Many people believe we should live each day as if it is your last. NO. I think when you live each day as your first, you see more wonderment and a freshness in life . Sorry to ramble a bit. You are on my mind. Tomorrow is Fathers Day in the US. A bridge I need to cross.

    Svara

  4. This beautiful post was worth waiting for. And your narrative speaks so well of our fragmented lives. Your photography is amazing, and I hope some of you father’s things keep his memory alive for you. He will always be with you in your heart.

    Svara

  5. Dear Leya
    alienation based on fragmentation. Concerning Karl Marx it started with the division of labour. We can’t think fragmentation without alienation. Nevertheless the alienation effect is the beginning of modern art. With cubism fragmentation became visible.
    One can read this all into Banksy’s art.
    Thanks for your ideas about fragmentation
    The Fab Four of Cley
    🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
    P.S.
    By the way, no thinking and no language – neither verbal nor iconographic – with fragmentation.

    Svara

  7. great thoughts, Ann-Christine. I don’t know why, but Banksy touches me the most. But, it also fits perfectly with your slightly melancholic writing about your father. Something seems to slip through the fingers and you’re trying to capture parts of it. Just like the Banksy image.
    From a photographic point of view, I like especially the small plants growing at the side of the path. They are present, while the background (~future) is unprecise, unsharp, and vague. But, there’s a light at the end. 👍👍👍 very well done!

    Svara

  8. Just as the pieces/fragments of a mosaic combine to make a beautiful picture, so it can be with people. I understand that fragmenting with the loss of a loved one, having lost both my parents last year. I wish there were something I could do to help but I know you’re surrounded by loving family and friends (human and furry) and I know you’ll make a beautiful picture from the fragments. I loved your take and photos, particularly that last one.

    ((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((Ann-Christine)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

    Svara

  11. Beautiful. Your post says it so beautifully, Ann-Christine. Fragmented or not, this is you and it is a sight to behold. Extraordinary post, I think of all of yours, this is my favourite.

    Svara

  12. As always Ann-Christine, your post was well worth the wait!! Knowing your losses these past few years you are amazing to have held it together – fragmented or not. A beautiful post as always. The Titanic visual is stunning

    Svara

  15. Some wonderful thoughts along with the beautiful photos. That last photo is as special as your green woodlands photo, each in its own way. And you had a wonderful catch in the sight of a butterfly ”mud pooling” on that plaster-less bit of the wall.

    Svara

  17. A beautiful if poignant post. Your approach to fragments in your photography is lovely – it reminds me of the saying that ‘less is more’ as you often say so much with relatively little. I hope that in piecing together more fragments from your father’s life you can start to feel less fragmented yourself 🤗

    Svara

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  21. I call these fragments ‘chapters of life’ . . . some are short, some long . . . and I accept there are other powers added to mine determining what happens over whom I have no control. . I was close to an Irish guy for over a decade who taught me that largely ‘whatever will be will be . . . he taught me ‘to go with the flow’ and I largely immerse myself in Buddhist way of thinking . . . For me it has worked and is working > I force very little and thus fragments do not really form . . . I enjoy every ray of sunshine coming my way and the thoughts taking peace away from one’s being somehow oft depart when one wakes the next morning and hears the birds outside . . . *smile* – back to the lovely photos . . . . be well . . .

    Svara

    • Thank you for your lovely comment, that somehow was lost together with so many on this post! Hugs to you and thank you for support and advice❤️

      Svara

  22. I enjoyed your fragments, the butterfly was sheer genius. At first I thought it was a painting. I hope you feel less fragmented soon. Sorting through a parent’s things is never easy.

    Svara

  24. Such a lovely post, content and form… even its formatting looks delightfully ”fragmented” 🙂 And I agree, we do tend to take ourselves and some things in life way too seriously, guilty as charged, so it can help to take a more detached look at things, like when doing a puzzle.. distance does help. Paradoxically it helps eventually, as Blake’s so beautifully expresses it, ”To see infinity in a grain of sand/ …/ And eternity in an hour” 😊 Wishing you a nice weekend ahead!

    Svara

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