Lost in Translation

I’ll start with an excerpt from Wikipedia:

“A still life (plural still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, or shells) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, and so on). With origins in the Middle Ages and Ancient Graeco-Roman art, still-life painting emerged as a distinct genre and professional specialization in Western painting by the late 16th century, and has remained significant since then. Still life gives the artist more freedom in the arrangement of elements within a composition than do paintings of other types of subjects such as landscape or portraiture.”

It is this aspect of freedom that appealed most to me, to be able to arrange things to my liking and according to my own sense of aesthetics.

This Sunday you are invited to capture a still life according to the above definition, or you can surprise me with an alternative interpretation that can bear the same title.

Be creative, have fun and enjoy your Sunday! (You have time until next Sunday to come up with your responses).

P.S. 

As of this post there won’t be small preview images in the posts for the reasons I voiced in “To Whom It May Concern”. I will still try to honour your submissions by posting a recap of your assembled contributing photos on a separate page (sub-page to Scheduled Challenges). 

Even though I stopped posting little preview images of your entries, my blogger friends never disappoint. Please check out the links bellow to see how others have interpreted still life. Once compiled you will find all the entries in a slideshow here.

• https://travelwithintent.com/2016/02/07/still-life-with-a-touch-of-power/

• https://sonyavdg.wordpress.com/2016/02/07/black-and-white-sunday-still-life

• http://lessywannagohome.blogspot.be/2016/02/glass-half-full.html

• http://collinesblog.com/2016/02/07/a-mothers-memory

• https://dailymusing57.wordpress.com/2016/02/07/black-white-sunday-still-life

• https://teepee12.com/2016/02/07/monochrome-kitchen-still-lifes-b-w-sunday

• http://letzterrang.blogspot.hr/2016/02/altes.html

• http://tishfarrell.com/2016/02/09/still-life-at-the-mall

• https://smallbluegreenmacro.wordpress.com/2016/02/10/still-life

• https://suejudd.com/2016/02/13/black-white-sunday-still-life

• https://lumar1298.wordpress.com/2016/02/08/black-white-sunday-still-life