Who Am I
by Jim Cook
Title
Who Am I
Artist
Jim Cook
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Originally titled Solar Opposites but later changed to "Who Am I" is the 2nd of two images selected as "Single Image Award Winners" and were published in B&W Magazine's Special Issue 101.
This started off as an abstract in color but decided to take it a couple steps further and this was the end result. I initially titled it "Solar Opposites" but wasn't entirely sold on that so I posted it on my FB page and asked for suggestions and said I would award an 8 x 12 print for the winning entry.
The replies included the following. "Confronting Your Demons", "Iceolation" the spelling was intentional, Ice Age", "Polar Optic", "Looking Glass", "My Inner Self", "The Great Spirit", " A Shadow of My Former Self", "Smoke Chalk and Mirrors", "Pieces", "Walls", "Lonely Walk", "Rear View Mirrors". The person who submitted "Confronting Your Demons" mentioned that he actually preferred my original title and so with that affirmation I decided to stick with it and in fairness I awarded the free print to him.
It was later on that a viewer wrote a lengthy message as to what the image said to him that I used his words "Who Am I" as the new title. He felt it spoke to Identity, especially in today's world.
What I most like about this image is its ability to render so many different opinions of it's subject or meaning. My personal feeling is that there is something that makes me feel as if it has something to do with the soul and I am trying to write something along that line to show with the photo.
UPDATE: Thank you for submitting your work for PhotoPlace Gallerys juried exhibition, "Black and White". Juror Dean Brierly has chosen 35 photographs for the gallery exhibition, and an additional 40 photographs for display in the Online Gallery on the PhotoPlace Gallery website. Its a wonderful and very diverse collection of work.
I am very pleased to tell you that one of your images was selected for print exhibition in our Middlebury, Vermont gallery. Congratulations!
AVAILABLE as a rolled print, poster, framed fine art print, metal, acrylic, wood or canvas print. Framed and canvas prints for your home, restaurant, hotel, bed and breakfast, office, waiting room, etc.
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Comments (165)
Laurel Adams
WELCOME to the Artist BUZzz, Jim! Love the added subtleties you shared in Topic thread 1. This is the heArt of the BUZzz, a chance to get a deeper understanding of the artist’s experiences behind the image that in turn kindles my interest. Thanks for your insight. I look forward to many more explorations into your aesthetic..:-)
Laurel Adams
Jim, CONGRATULATIONS! Your work has been featured in the Home Page of The ARTIST BUZzz Group! You are cordially invited to POST image embed links for this distinction to the 🌟GAs -Features Archive -2022 thread in the discussion tab. Thank you for your glimpse of beauty! …love the “burn” elements…so,well done.
Alex Lapidus
Congratulations, your image has been featured in the Experimental Photography group -- thanks for sharing it with us! Please feel free to add it to the 2021 Feature Archive in the Discussion section (using the "embed" link on your image page).
Luther Fine Art
Congratulations! Your marvelous art has been featured on the Home Page of the ABC Group. This art has been selected from Open week! You are invited to add this wonderful art to the features archive
Barbie Corbett-Newmin
Interesting work and fascinating list of titles. Congrats on being published and featured.
Barbie Corbett-Newmin
Interesting work and fascinating list of titles. Congrats on being published and featured.
Luther Fine Art
Congratulations on your fabulous photographic art is featured in Camera Art! You are invited to archive your work in the Features Archive thread! group as well as any other thread in which it would fit! ! LF
Jim Cook replied:
Thank You! I definitely appreciate this feature as well as the work put into running the group "Camera Art"!
Hartmut Jager
A most imaginative, fabulous and unique art-image of a being who is perhaps moving between different dimensions... Excellent! :-)
Jenny Revitz Soper
Every inch, moving and poignant! congrats on all your success with this image, Jim! l/f/v
Donna Kennedy
Jim, Congratulations on being chosen for the Featured Artist of the Week in the group, Old MASTERS - PHOTOGRAPHERS and DIGITAL ARTS!...L
Lenore Senior
CONGRATULATIONS, Jim! You are the Featured Artist of the Week in the fine art group, Old MASTERS--Photographers and Digital Arts! This image is one of my very favorites on FAA! Your work is thoughtful and emotional! v/f/feature!!
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