Here's one that captures London traffic for me. It's a composite of the same image of a passing bus shot horizontally, overlaid by a few versions of itself, shifted vertically. It's a bit Piet Mondrian, I admit. It wasn't intentional. I took the original image from my hotel room when I was in London in November.
The second image is for one of my Design for Photographers assignments. We had to photograph a response to Kurt Weill's violin concerto. I'd never heard it and in fact, Kurt Weill is not known for classical music. He wrote a bunch of cabaret songs (Mack the Knife, among them) and was quite popular in the first half of last century. Anyway, I thought his violin concerto sucked big time. He was only 24 when he wrote it and I thought the piece was disjointed, lacked maturity and cohesion. There were snippets in it that made sense and were almost beautiful, but the overall piece was confusing and I couldn't make sense of it.
In response, I decided to photograph a detail of an Art Nouveau building, which was from the same era as the concerto and break it apart to the point of making it unrecognizable. It's almost like the opposite of "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts". I found that the concerto was actually lesser than the sum of its individual snippets and that's the idea I tried representing visually.
I've also included the original image, for kicks.
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