Regardless of marriage traditions, a father’s power, inspiration, protection, intimacy and over all massiveness in a woman’s life at some point recedes. His once absorbing presence becomes more distant as another male figure enters her life. He is the second powerful male figure in her life; and she sees the future with him stretched out before her in a world where her father no longer exists.
Somewhere lurking in this promising love is a recognition of her father’s death. As if looking at her lover is like looking into a crystal ball and seeing fifteen or twenty years from now; the lovers are still together and her father, who has been the most significant man in her life up until now, has disappeared.
Perhaps this realization makes the second male figure seem more vital, he will be in your life long after your father has gone. But then again he has not been with you when your father was, when you were young and still being formed by the world.
Father and lover. Depending on how you look at their faces in photographs they can be perceived as very similar, or they can be seen as opposites. They merge, fade into nature and reemerge.
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Somewhere lurking in this promising love is a recognition of her father’s death. As if looking at her lover is like looking into a crystal ball and seeing fifteen or twenty years from now; the lovers are still together and her father, who has been the most significant man in her life up until now, has disappeared.
Perhaps this realization makes the second male figure seem more vital, he will be in your life long after your father has gone. But then again he has not been with you when your father was, when you were young and still being formed by the world.
Father and lover. Depending on how you look at their faces in photographs they can be perceived as very similar, or they can be seen as opposites. They merge, fade into nature and reemerge.
back to the gallery