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assing by at the posted speed limit, three snapshots captured in quick succession. Trees that grow out of the top of old abandoned silos are intriguing. This one is just off route 50 near Knob Noster and has been the subject of my curiosity repeatedly over the years. But often when rendering this anomaly on the two dimensional photographic plain, it appears as if the tree could be simply situated behind the silo, and not actually in the silo. This problem of reference orientation is solved by creating a triptych from different positions, allowing the viewer to see around the silo and thereby establish the true internal location of the tree. All things are encased by external frameworks which inform existence.
“Thus from both sides the image is felt to be weak in respect of meaning: there are those who think the image is an extremely rudimentary system in comparison with language and those who think that signification cannot exhaust the image's ineffable richness. Now even - and above all if - the image is in a certain manner the limit of meaning, it permits the consideration of a veritable ontology of the process of signification. How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?” - Roland Barthes
