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The Call: Pears — Jessica
It’s taken me almost three days spread out over a week, but I’ve finally watched all of Adam Marelli’s second video on B&H’s YouTube channel. Even though he does more street/documentary/portrait work, I find him endlessly inspirational because he is inspired by art and painting.
At the end of the program he mentions Umberto Boccioni, an Italian futurist painter. It was his look that I was going for with the pears — another stab at the cubism, multiple perspectives in one shot.
It’s funny that “cubism” seems wrong for this shot, just because the pears are rounded. We internalize so much that prejudices us.
I like the shot. The colors together are fabulous, but perhaps most impressive are those background pear shapes in those stripey brown tones. They add depth and reinforce everything in the foreground. Nicely done, my dear.