On Fri, 24 Sep 1999 05:10:30 -0700, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:

>
>   In my own interpretation of horror however I have an entirely
>different point of view. I expect to see monsters, disfigured humans,
>atrocities against nature, blood, guts, dripping goo, moss hanging
>from forbidding trees and slime covered rock walls, dungeons, tools
>for torture, nooses, guillotines, headless horsemen, Frankenstien
>monsters, mummies, vampires, vehicles smashing together with body
>parts flying everywhere, worms crawling out of eye sockets and bugs
>from gapping bloody gashes in human flesh, dripping oozing boils on
>pretty young faces, death and destruction in every single pixel of
>the image, and you know just plain scary, frightening, horror related
>imagery.
>  I don't think there is a need of making the viewer try to find the
>horror in the image in this round. It should be blatant and obvious.
>You should be scared out of your wits by what you have seen and the
>horror of it plain as the screen it is shown on. It should jerk the
>horror right out of your soul and bare it to the world for all to see
>as you go screaming into the night. Any way that is my own calm and
>gentle interpretation of it.
>
> How do you interpret this rounds theme ?

I think any interpretaion is valid as long as the artist sees it as horror. Whether it
is
blood and gore, or a poseresse's broken fingernail.

My interpretation of horror is where the observer sees that something absolutely
dreadful
is about to occur and cannot be stopped.  Like someone jumping out of a high window in
a
burning building, or something about to happen to the observer, like seeing a leopard
launching itself from a tree right at you, or a T Rex bearing down on you.

 My idea, that I am not about to reveal as it would spoil the effect, has no person or
creature in the scene. The title, I hope, will say it all.  The only difficulty, and
this
is the same for all of us, is trying to make the image convincing and interesting.

Some other ideas; The horror on the face of the Egyptian architect as he realises that
he
has built the pyramid upside down;  A suicidal poser leaping off a lighthouse; An
astronaut on the moon/planet/asteroid as his spacecraft is destroyed by a meteorite.

I think the IRTC is great because it spurs me on to be a bit creative and put in some
real
effort.  I am not in it for the money :-)
 I look forward to seeing your fearsome scene Ken.
David
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