Good and Evil

When I look at this photograph I cant help to think that the roots are alive. Are these roots even attached to a tree? The roots are squirming intertwined with each other like a plague crawling over and under the earth. The vantage point of the photographer makes it look like these roots are slithering off of my computer screen slowly crawling over and under my skin. Like my body in a coffin filled with boa constrictors. I almost start to panic; gazing into this photograph makes me squirm in my seat. I am uncomfortable and almost want to look away, but I cant. Some sort of evil treacherous spell is pulling my eyes toward the photograph.  

I cannot help but think to myself why I think this photograph comes off as dark and daunting? It is the fact that the roots look like gigantic serpents sliding in and out of each other. The technique that makes it the most frightening is the placement of the darkness in the back of the photograph. This placement really makes the theme of the photograph eerie. The darkness follows the roots and to me darkness goes hand in hand with evil. It looks like the roots are engulfing the light leaving nothing but the unknown evil inside the darkness.  Without the flowers in the photograph there would be no light.

The flowers seem to be the only remaining parts of the light left but why? With darkness there has to be light. With good there has to be evil. It is the balance of nature…of life. The blood dripping off the spine of the roots seems to be from the battle between the light and the dark. It took me a long time to realize that the tops of the roots seem to be dripping blood. This is when I recognized the battle that is taking place in this nature scene. It is the same battle that takes place over and over again in history. It is the battle between good and evil…. Light and dark.