Background to the Idea !

Still-life work which has been part of art since the late Renaissance where works by the Spanish artist Zubaran captured a group of objects as a triomphe de l'oeil. Making the work seem to the viewer as being real. Underlying the capture of 'pictorial reality' the composition is also open to an interpretation. The contemporary play that I am dealing with is that the work is still-life via a digital format rather than paint, and I push the conceptual aspect a bit further by including in the title of Still Life, 'an arrangement of Spanish Apples', (apples in a bowl were a constant subject matter for Cezanne) Manzanas is the Spanish word for apples. So what is it we see? What exactly is it that we interpret, e.g. what is it we like about the idea? In the main do we judge reality as a recognition of being familiar with what we see, rather than in my view the more important aspect of reality of what we feel?

This work is no more real than a painting, its 'reality' lies in the interpretation that the viewer wants to give to it.

Reality in everyday usage means "everything that exists ". The term reality , in its widest sense, includes everything that is , whether it is observable, comprehensible , or self-contradictory by science, philosophy , or any other system of analysis. Reality in this sense may include both being and nothingness , whereas existence is often restricted to being (compare with nature ).

In the strict sense of Western philosophy , there are levels or gradation to the nature and conception of reality. These levels include, from the most subjective to the most rigorous : phenomenological reality , truth , fact , and axiom .

Other philosophies, particularly those founded in eastern religions likeandhave different explications of reality. Conceptions of reality in Buddhism include:,,and("illusion," in Sanskrit )

Still Life - Real-time Muse (video clip of webcam)
Composition with an arrangement of Spanish Apples