10.05.04

Engagement

Shinbashi, Tokyo

Adjudicator Kurt Easterwood commented on this entry:

My first thought is that that's a lot of unoccupied urban space for Tokyo. The truck so big and taking up a lot of that foreground space reminds me of Hiroshige's 100 Views of Edo series. The way he's been caught in between the truck and its mirror is intriguing, in a way trapping him there although there's so many places he could roam. Of course what's really keeping him there, momentarily no doubt but could be an eternity, is his intereraction with you. You're important enough for him to stop lighting his cigarette, assess how he's going to deal with this intrusion into his cognitive space he wasn't expecting. So in a way, emotionally he also has no ability to roam. Cognitive dissonance. Contender.

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