May Day celebrations was a pagan ritual celebrated with the festival of Flora the Roman Goddess of flowers. People normally dressed in red and white. They also danced around the May Pole and crowned a May Queen. This image made me think about the narrative of the five women. They're white dresses has that distorted appeal of purity. I believed the flowers in front of them were May baskets, these were small baskets of sweets or flowers, usually left anonymously on neighbours' doorsteps. Their somber faces has that effective look of longing. It has that glazed look especially on the young girl which makes you arrested in motion. Also it has that eeriness since they look lifeless in the photograph. There's no sense of play in these children. Their poses raises a lot of questions. Is that their mother in the background? Why aren't they smiling? Why are the two only other girls wearing hats and oversize robes?
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
May Day
May Day celebrations was a pagan ritual celebrated with the festival of Flora the Roman Goddess of flowers. People normally dressed in red and white. They also danced around the May Pole and crowned a May Queen. This image made me think about the narrative of the five women. They're white dresses has that distorted appeal of purity. I believed the flowers in front of them were May baskets, these were small baskets of sweets or flowers, usually left anonymously on neighbours' doorsteps. Their somber faces has that effective look of longing. It has that glazed look especially on the young girl which makes you arrested in motion. Also it has that eeriness since they look lifeless in the photograph. There's no sense of play in these children. Their poses raises a lot of questions. Is that their mother in the background? Why aren't they smiling? Why are the two only other girls wearing hats and oversize robes?
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