Bus Stop Redux: Past and Future
A new take on those same two views from before. What do you suppose I mean by this?
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- a part of the mobile blogging experiment.
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Comments
In fact, you carried it a bit further than I did. One image is of the past and the other is of the future, which makes the place I'm standing the present, as you said. After reading your comment, I can see that I made the link to the bus stop subconsciously more than on purpose. It just felt like the place for that concept.
The other main difference is that rather than sunset and sunrise specifically, I meant for the differences in the tones of the images to be symbolic of deliverance or moving to a more hopeful, brighter future. The past is rather darker, although seen with a somewhat nostalgic coloring.
It's not meant to say that the past was bad and the future good, but that the perspective on the past is different from that on the future.
So yes, you were very close.
Good job!
The deliverance I spoke of is a hoped-for deliverance, seen in the future at an indeterminate distance.
The past image faces south, and I'm still on the side of the road where I catch the bus going that direction. To an extent, I'm still living in the past.
But the darkness of the image also represents leaving certain things about the past behind. The brighter image is about embracing whatever may come with a hopeful spirit. It faces north because where I live now (and therefore the place from which I must build my future) is to the north of my childhood home.
There are many layers of meaning, but you struck the heart of it.