Are we human or are we dancer?
- Killers
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Nikon D80 + 50mm F1.8 + IR remote. My hands look weird because I'm trying to conceal the remote . I'm wearing a scarf. The tutu is self made. Question mark drawn with eye liner. A lot of tone mapping in post editing to darken the blacks yet keep the photo bright. Noise reduction due to ISO 400; sharpen to compensate. Decreased red content in color balancing for a colder hue.
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For 's Inspired By Words contest. It's my first time participating in a contest, partially since it's the first one I've heard of specifically for conceptual photography that's also hosted by someone I watch. Plus Jacobians are slowly melting my brain, rendering me incapable of coming up with my own concepts

My interpretation of the quote for the contest:
The first thing that struck me about the quote was the grammatical error "Dancer" is singular instead of properly agreeing with the plural pronoun "we". This suggests either that proper grammar is dying in popular culture, or that "dancer" is being used as an adjective like "human." For the sake of extrapolating a "deeper" interpretation, I will go with the latter. The way I see it, since "dancer" is being used as an adjective and the song makes a clear distinction between dancers and humans, among other nerdy reason, "dancer" must be a separate subspecies. We are either of classification Homo sapien sapien, or of classification Homo sapien praesul (or some other Latin word for dancer...who knows.) The speaker of the quote is thus asking, presumably God via this apostrophe, whether he is of this human or dancer subspecies. It is this question of identity and the subsequent inability to answer that pains the speaker to his guts, compelling him to clutch his seemingly unbeating heart with cold hands.

I don't know if it's "dancer" or "denser" and am simply following contest guidelines. According to Wikipedia, it's "dancer" but I really don't know Please stop commenting on the dancer/denser bit. Thank you


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