You see, I think the artifice of the picture -- with focus on the fan and the woman out of focus and cropped off bring more attention to the hand of the artist and choices made in photographing than the scene or it's meaning. As I said, I like the bed, the window, the fan and think they speak more volumes about erotic longing and hot summer afternoons than an eccentric cropping on the nude. The other picture you showed recently, of the woman in jeans lying face down on the bed, I felt was more about erotic longing too, but again, that's my take on it...(posted 8696 days ago)I can understand your wanting to keep private things private, but I think photographs often express specifics very well and generalities very poorly --- generalities like the sexual longings of humankind, specifics like sexual longings of the individual...but maybe that's a subject for another thread.
"Artsy-fartsy" isn't intended as a slam specifically against you, but photographs like this, that some feel look "romantic" because of the loss of detail in shallow depth of field and eccentric cropping -- I feel they draw specific attention to the visual qualities of photography itself --- the ability to crop and slice off the subject, using the camera as a window and the specific "how things look" of shallow depth of field. "Artsy-fartsy" meeans I see the presentation before I see the photograph. If it makes sense to you, I think this picture is more about the photographer making a woman sitting on a bed look like art....if that is your intention, fine...but what was said above led me to believe otherwise. "Artsy-fartsy" is not specifically BAD in my book (I've got scads of artsy-fartsy pictures and they are priced to MOVE!), but it isn't the pure distillation of summer erotic longing either...
On a side but very related note, have you seen DeCarava's photographs of beds?
As far as "caring" what I think --- everything I write is, admittedly, written from my perspective. You can listen -- I hope you at least read it anyway, but I don't want to be in the driver's seat of your artistic endeavor. Sometimes the opinions of others can resonate too loudly. I also candidly admit I might be wrong - dead wrong - about this picture or any other I might comment on.