Monday, April 14, 2014

Gabriela Coppenbarger

Gabriela Coppenbarger 
Abelardo Morell, "Pencil" 
2000, gelatin silver print. 

I selected the photograph "Pencil" by Abelardo Morell because for me this image was not just about a pencil this image spoke so many different things to me. The one thing that had me in awe about this image is that it was so simple because it is just a black and white image of a pencil and its shadow from the rising sun but the meanings behind it that I found were so much more than that. For me looking at this image it is showing me that that little pencil can make a difference and it can be so much more and can be so many different things. The shadow itself looks like it could be a building or something much more than that of a pencil's shadow and the same goes with a pencil you can make anything with a pencil, a picture, a story, a statement.