The theme, to me, implies 2 very different elements, i will call them selves – both reaching a level of the maximum possible absorption in one another while retaining each, its distinct form or quality despite the coalescence, and this can be a finite loss of a self for some moments in another before the self goes apart again: let me instance sea-water- a pic can capture the visual sea but the mind supplies the salt but if I click salt-pans, the sea will move into the mind…if we are looking for a saturation point in an image, that will be when the recipient can hold no more of the donor (and the other way around) without losing its self-hood. There are 2 lights collaborating to make a visual art – the light of our intelligence and the light of the scene ….If I look at your interpretations in this vein, I’d say this pic best illustrates the theme as both the water and the sunset light are equally mingled visually to a point of fullness but not of overflow, not of one of them tipping over in to a loss of its own visual personality…saturation is for me a state of loving, with balance and independence in love. I feel your pix on the human subjects absorbed in their arts (art of abhinaya and the art of story-reading) also interpret the theme effectively and the dance-form and the book are equally energetic as they embrace their human counterparts, creating a mutual immanence…… .Thanks for the lovely pix that gave me the excuse to sound off like this:-)
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The theme, to me, implies 2 very different elements, i will call them selves – both reaching a level of the maximum possible absorption in one another while retaining each, its distinct form or quality despite the coalescence, and this can be a finite loss of a self for some moments in another before the self goes apart again: let me instance sea-water- a pic can capture the visual sea but the mind supplies the salt but if I click salt-pans, the sea will move into the mind…if we are looking for a saturation point in an image, that will be when the recipient can hold no more of the donor (and the other way around) without losing its self-hood. There are 2 lights collaborating to make a visual art – the light of our intelligence and the light of the scene ….If I look at your interpretations in this vein, I’d say this pic best illustrates the theme as both the water and the sunset light are equally mingled visually to a point of fullness but not of overflow, not of one of them tipping over in to a loss of its own visual personality…saturation is for me a state of loving, with balance and independence in love. I feel your pix on the human subjects absorbed in their arts (art of abhinaya and the art of story-reading) also interpret the theme effectively and the dance-form and the book are equally energetic as they embrace their human counterparts, creating a mutual immanence…… .Thanks for the lovely pix that gave me the excuse to sound off like this:-)