interpreting a theme

I'm finding this project hard. It's not coming off very well. Things are not coming together.  Whatever I try doesn't really work or fall into place. The improvisation  on a theme is  off key.  I'm just going to have to practice more. Thank heavens for digital technology. It allows me afford to make mistakes.

Music is a good way to understand the photographic process.  So we have composition, tonality improvisation, motion, rhythm, interpretation as well as  light and colour.

This places an emphasis on the interpretation of a score or theme as distinct from originality,  genius and masterworks  of the modernist tradition that placed  on photography as an artistic medium, which has specific properties and representational problematics. Once art was liberated from representation (realism) it had to justify its existence as the search for its own essence.

Formalist modernism held that  each art medium must determine, through rigorous self-examination of its own operations and effects, those specific qualities unique to itself. Hence the modernist reading of an image that rejects context and meaning and places an  emphasis on purity, the self-sufficiency of the photograph,  and photography's inherent  nature as a medium. We end up with disembodied self-closure of pure visuality.

 Improvisation not coming together brings the idea of formless into play---the improvisation goes no where. It just winds down and becomes disorder.