Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs- image from The Great Unreal series

The image I chose is a color photograph. The photographer has placed the viewer at what would be considered a normal standing heigth perhaps slightly to the right of the center. In the center of the photo taking up the portion of its lower half, is a long grayish blue road shrinking in perspective as it disappears into the surrounding material. Flanking the road on either side, is what appears to be large walls of looming brown grass or hay. There is also a pile of what appears to be dirt place to the right on the road in an almost neat square shape. The deep brown tone of the dirt is similar to the tone of shadow cast from one wall of the hay to the other. The texture of the road is smooth which is in contrast to the rough and scratchy looking hay surrounding it. The somewhat diffused light seems to be coming from the top and left of the image. Because there seems to be no light that is strong enough directly in the middle, the area where the road is swallowed by the walls, is the darkest.
The photograph may have been constructed a studio because of the fact that the road looks like its made out of a cardboard like material. The texture doesn't exactly mimic that of a real road. It's subtle however, because its construction isn't apparent when you first look at the image. It's another possibility is that the road was shot first and then super imposed next to the hay. Either that or the road was crafted, perhaps in miniature, and then placed next to the hay. The texture that the looming hay walls mimics that of an animals fur. The walls look as if there were some great twisting beast that has ingested the lonely looking road. The overall mood is eerie, surreal, and unsettling because of the fact that the light is so shadowy and appears to be slightly emulating that of a car's headlights. It's also a foreign and mysterious image because it defies our expectation: the landscape has been completely obliterated from view and this unknown grass like matter has taken over either sides of our road. This creates a tunnel vision like effect and the emotions that I feel as a result, is that of anxiety.
I'm curious as to what the square like brown dirt in the road could signify. Maybe its shape implies a symbolic car traveling down the towers of grass. It could also be emulating an a dead animal that has been splatted as a result of a car accident, because the dirt isn't so neat. Perhaps the image as a whole references the visual effect of a car crash itself: as the car rolls repeatedly over, the only things that has stuck out in this person's mind are the dizzying visuals of the hay and the road, the hay and the road, and a bit of dirt too. The exaggerated repetition of the hay could also mean that the individual is bored of looking at hay bales on the landscape beside the road and is experiencing a trance of sorts while driving or traveling. It could also be that hay walls are there for pure aesthetic reasons and simply meant to create this spooky feeling of unknown that is so often experienced when looking out into the darkness of the night.