The proverbial 500 hundred pound blond gorilla in the room...the way Petros Chrisostomou pushes and pulls the environment spatially is interesting in this photograph...we know there is the potential for manipulation in the image, God knows we have seen it so many times, we are skeptical even when the image is real...as if conditioned to not believe a word of anything (okay, verging on a double-negative, but you get my drift)...



What is really successful here, is the use of a monochromatic color scheme...it is what really drew me to the piece...I was excited by the juxtaposition of the large hair covered form in this palatial room-scape, but what locks me in visually, is the way I subtly move across the picture plane in shades of grey, white and cream...the tension between the organic, flowing hair and the structure of the architectural details is inspiring...the three essential elements converging into perfect harmony - concept, form and material...we are seduced by the concept and the validity, ground in a photography, then formally we are kept by the visual tension and color choices...