Week 6: Obsession

In thinking about obsession, I tried to come up with different interpretations of that word, and different ideas for pictures.  In taking a close, direct picture of a light bulb, I hoped to capture the idea of overwhelming intensity.  However, the picture didn't really do justice to the brightness of the bulb in real life - in real life, it was pretty difficult to maintain a direct gaze from just inches away.
Several ideas in this picture represented obsession to me:
The afore-mentioned intensity, being both really intense and slightly uncomfortable.
The heat felt by being that close to the source.
The fact that everything not close to the source falls into darkness.
The light bulb itself looks a bit fuzzy - hard to get a clear, accurate observation of it, due to the overwhelming brightness.

I think we experience some of these same effects using some instruments in class.  Any time we use the Pars, any time we use lights that come closer to hitting the audience directly (backlight), we start to get into a world that can feel similar to the photo (especially if we've got a black curtain backdrop - similar to the non-lit areas in the photo).