To think they could have just as easily been a juggling pin (i.e. prop of choice) renders things to seem a bit more random than intentional. My thought to that is that her chosen prop was one of significance to her and as such still carries weight ... but the viewer wouldn\'t know that ... unless of course, SHE (or those that know her) is the viewing audience.
As a portrait, per se, her understanding of \"what\'s the point\" is already known. As \"art\" to the public, it is not and then must be established (or left intentionally ambiguous) ... i.e. sometimes we have to help the viewer more than we might otherwise think. I doubt that I could have ever associated her sphere\'s with juggling, etc. ... and as such would have never gotten to it being a personally reflective portrait. Rather, I saw it as an interpretive statement. Had there been additional/different clues @ performing, then it likely would have been seen as the former.
Obviously, I read something into it after I rebalanced the spheres to a diminuitive element. In doing so, I gave the viewer (myself) little choice but to see her as the subject and the spheres as contributory.
To think they cold have just as easily been a juggling pin (i.e. prop of choice) renders things to seem a bit more random than intentional. My thought to that is that her chosen prop was one of significance to her and as such still carries weight ... but the viewer wouldn\'t know that ... unless of course, SHE (or those that know her) is the viewing audience.
As a portrait, per se, her understanding of \"what\'s the point\" is already known. As \"art\" to the public, it is not and then must be established (or left intentionally ambiguous) ... i.e. sometimes we have to help the viewer more than we might otherwise think. I doubt that I could have ever associated her sphere\'s with juggling, etc. ... and as such would have never gotten to it being a personally reflective portrait. Rather, I saw it as an interpretive statement. Had there been additional/different clues @ performing, then it likely would have been seen as the former.
Obviously, I read something into it after I rebalanced the spheres to a diminuitive element. In doing so, I gave the viewer (myself) little choice but to see her as the subject and the spheres as contributory.
