Image 7

Written Responses

Image 7 responses

Brunei
MD Ridauddin Hj Ibrahim

In my opinion it reminded me of a Mosque. Being a muslim boy that is where it took me. Although I'm sure others might not see the connection since it is a picture of a Christian cemetery. And people may find it like some sort of ‘taboo' if one was to think that a Christian cemetery reminds someone of a Mosque.

Burma
Aye Win Myint

This picture show to remind me our past. This was happened not too far. That was in second world war. Our country and India was under colony of British empire before the world war II. When Japan declared the war and they become a war hero. All east Asia were slowly down to their hand, but alliance were accompanied and against them, Japan were run out. During the war, many soldiers of alliance were died and have special grave yard in two big place in Thaunkyank and Thanbieyzayat when they got victory. It represent the upper part of this picture. But most Japanese soldiers died in the forest, so their helmet were grounded in the forest or on the ground. No place for them to make grave yard in our country because they have unsuccessful war. It represent the lower part of this picture.

Camaroon
Pascal G Bekono

Elle montre une petite haie faite de fils entrelacés entre eux, une boule rouge avec des balafres est insérée à l'intérieur de cette haie. De l'autre coté, c'est une petite savane, qui s'achève sur une petite colline où surplombe un long mur sur lequel est érigé des symboles de croix religieuses.

Azerbaijan
Elnara Babayeva

Ohh no... So much sadness comes out of that image. I think automatically on destroyed city of Shusha in my homecountry Azerbaijan , during the occupational war of Armenia . Yes, this image looks exactly the same way as dozens of cities of Azerbaijan destroyed by war. Abandoned graveyards, hidden landmines, the stolen childhood of children, who became victims of that unfaired war...

Bangladesh
MD Sharawan Taman Dhali

The picture seems to me that a ball which is on the grass may be kids were playing soccer and they can't get the ball because the ball is in a difficult place.

Taiwan
Tony Hsu

This is a royal graveyard. The red thing is the alarm. But someone broke into the graveyard and stole the treasure.

Indonesia
Priscilla Hermali

This picture somehow reminds me of soccer and England (English Premiere League). I used to be a football/soccer fan and always interested going to England to watch soccer. It also reminds me of an old friend of mine from Manchester that always told me that England 's weather is really bad. The image shows me the ‘real' England .

Fiji
Bernadette Caniogo

The scene or image of the graveyard despites the image of those that have gone before us, all lying peacefully in their sleep. The darkness that surrounds the graveyard, gives me an eerie feeling that some of those lying in their graves are in another world, a dark world; a place where they are being trapped or imprisoned and cannot escape. The same feeling applies to the ball lying beneath the entwined wires. Looking very fragile and helpless; it seems like it is imprisoned and entrapped beneath the wires and is unable to extract itself from where it lies. The whole scene reminds me of a part of my life where I sometimes feel that I am trapped and imprisoned in a world of tradition and culture that stops me from being myself; or expressing my own true feelings or ideas due to culture beliefs and traditions. Although it is part of my life, it seems like a ‘netting' or ‘sieve' that blocks out and limits the part in me that wants to express more of myself, my ideas, thoughts, and feelings.

China
Ziao Shu Zhang

This picture shows that the big grave. It is so desolate. It reminds me the bad things. People lost their family and lovers lost their wifes or husbands.

Tonga
Kane Satui

A beginning and the end. Search for the meaning of life. Future – the end is set in stone, but the journey or direction is dark unknown) as it isn't charted yet. A place of memories.

Russia
George Kesselman

Heart tangled in search of the values and faith. The image invokes the thoughts of when I have immigrated to Canada from Russia and was trying to understand how the values here are different from the ones I was raised with. I was tangled and confused in trying to find of weather to retain the values that I already had or to adopt the values of the new society.

Burma
Theingi Tun

How fragile is life
How precious and brief
Just like the mornings
And dewdrops on leaves

Germany
Uwe Terton

This photo brings up old memories about going on a trip to Bretony , France with my parents in October (Autumn) 1982. The reason why we went there, was that my dad was there when he was a soldier during WWII. The war for me is like this image, or better the times after war. People died and being buried at a cemetery. The red buoy made out of glass could stand for new life and hope which is right now covered by a net of grief. Between the dead people (cemetery) and life(red buoy) there seems to be a barrier (the dark area). There are two grass palms which point towards the grave stones. This could connect the world of the dead with the world of the living.

Columbia
María Alejandra Gaviria Reyes

It is a far place from me, I feel that I have been there before. The grass, is the same which my feet have walked all of this years, with a dark side, that have been there always, but I do not assume it yet.

India
Vinita Agarwal

For this image I have chosen to replace it with an image of leaves that I took myself. With the graveyard in the background, and the egg caught in the wires, it shows death as well as the suppression of birth. I am including this image of leaves, because leaves for me represent life, they represent growth and nurture. I would like to convert the negativity from this image into something more positive, something that conveys the opposite of what is shown to me (see image).

Slovenia
Ursula Jasovec

Gloomy side of life
Grobovi, žale, smrt, žalost, jok, nebesa, pekel, vice, Dante Alighieri-9 krogov pekla- Božanska komedija=La Divina Commedia, 1.11.-dan mrtvih/dan spomina, duše, mediator …
V ospredju je vidna pikapolonica-rdeca ponazarja krik, nekaj drugacnega, nekaj kar predstavlja dogajanje v ljudeh, kateri bližnji so pokojni. V ozadju grobove spremlja spokojna vijolicno-modra barva neba, v ospredju pa vidimo zanemarjeno travo in posušeno trnje, ki predstavlja smrt-bolecino! Barva neba in pikapolonice je prijetno kontrastna vsebini slike.
Graveyard, mourning, sadness, scream (red shape in right corner of picture) for freedom and despair which stayes forever in people whose closest have died. Even the gras in front of the graves is all neglected and covered in thorns (in front of the picture) as it is this life and death itself

Philippines
Geri Niemi

The next album cover of Slayer!  A lonely and dark translation of this life's end.