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H. Chiropractic – don’t leave childhood
without it
The spine shot. The chiropractor’s focus, their tool, displayed
here, laid bare. The child can squat if the spine is strong. He
can run and jump and hop if the spine is strong. More, much more,
he can also listen and talk and relate and share and respond and
love and LIVE. He can be himself. Of course, he will need other
life-giving things also – love, food, shelter, trust. It is
clear, a ‘truth’. Yet, on this earthly journey, not
all people accept the same ‘truths’. We all make assumptions.
Sometimes we are surprised when others do not make, understand or
(even) accept these same assumptions. Perhaps your message needs
to be clearer. Perhaps, even, you need to be firm. “Don’t
leave childhood without seeing a chiropractor.” That’s
clear and firm enough. Clear as Life in this squatting child.
Artist’s note:
The challenge with chiropractic art is to present the spine in a
unique way. We see many spines each day, and the challenge is to
make the basis of our science, philosophy and art the basis of inspiring
art-work. One that recognises, lifts and captures the superb detail
from the daily encounter. This challenge faces all artists, be they
photographers, painters, sculptors or dancers. I was reminded of
this while sitting for my mother, an impressionist oil painter,
and her colleagues, during portrait classes. I was the only subject,
just another face, but there were several interpretations, as each
artist decided which features to include and emphasise, which colours
to use and blend, the depths of tone, and the sharpness of edge.
For the photographer, take the time to explore the subject. Squint
and blur your focus, to see the brightest tones, and perhaps focus
on that; or move the subject/yourself until the brightest light
is on the feature you want to focus on. Walk around the subject.
Stand on a chair, squat down - don’t make the mistake of taking
all your images from your eye height. This gets boring. Try tilting
the camera for drama (I will have a tilted image in my next series).
Before you release the shutter, recheck the corners of your viewfinder
for clutter – is there something distracting from the image,
or something you can include? The detail in this image is laid bare,
with the gentle inference of the SP’s produced by slight body
rotation, and diffused light source. Again, there is the softness
of tone, and I preferred to look down at the flexed spinal posture
(achieved by having the boy squatting), which slightly condensed
the spine into a smaller package. A pleasing and unique outcome.
PC.
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