I'm never quite sure what questions are going to stimulate debate, and my toning question was the last on my list to arouse such a lively response. However, it is interesting and intellectually stimulating to be sure.(posted 8703 days ago)On the other hand, whenever I get involved in these exchanges I like to this back on an incident in Edward Weston's life a number of years after he created Pepper #30: the intellectual world was embroiled in a debate over the sexual connotation of this print or if it was actually a spiritual rendition of the Virgin and child. When asked, Weston said it was only a pepper and he ate it for dinner, with the apology for cannibalistically devouring his subjects.
I sometimes think that formalism and simplicity are good traits to develop in anyone's creative work...it builds discipline.