a picture is worth a thousand words

Woman in words

This image is based on an incredible picture from Michael Ezra.  When I saw it look so pretty I couldn’t resist making a words composition.  But which words to use?

In order to choose the right words I read more than 50 online poems focused on women. Then I manually selected word by word among those who struck me as more consistent with the atmosphere of the image.

I ended up with a highly subjective list of  over 140 words.

I want to thank Michael Ezra for letting me to use his picture as seed image for my work. On his website you can find tons of incredibly beautiful photographs.

Remember that these images are under this license, so the commercial use of them is forbidden.

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This second one is a more abstract version.

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This entry was posted on Monday, July 26th, 2010 at 23:03 and is filed under Art and tagged with , , . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

8 Responses to “Woman in words”

  1. slpmartin says:
    July 26, 2010 at 23:35

    Very fine work…subjectively, the first image is my favorite…amazing job.

  2. Jorge says:
    July 28, 2010 at 16:35

    Nice images, Johnnie, from a very nice photograph. I do also prefer the first one.

    • juanosborne says:
      July 29, 2010 at 11:14

      Thanks Jorge. Everybody likes the first one… probably because it’s more similar to the super-nice original photo.

  3. Francois says:
    August 4, 2010 at 11:04

    Very nice work. I don’t know exactly how you do that (a software, some maths and a lot of time) but it is incredibly beautifull !

    Thanks!

  4. Евгений says:
    July 18, 2011 at 06:37

    Хуан, вы реально крутой автор! С уважением, ваши поклонники из России.