Edvard Munch The Scream

The Scream by Edvard Munch 1893

Reduction exercise, omission:
i will write roughly 100 words in response to the image. Considering what it is i see and feel when looking at the image and intemperate it in my own way. I will write quickly, invent, be intuitive with language.  I will then try reducing my writing to 50 words while still maintaining the essence of my response and then i will try 25 words.
I will write  short story choosing the character position of one of the figures in the image. I will relate my short story to exorstensalism and relate it back to the project void life void.

As i walk down the old bridge on my usual daily walk i started to notice the fear that numerous passers by were experiencing, be it fear of sin or fear of empty death, i see how physically engulfed they are in this worry they feel. Distraught with emotion, or solubly sulking either way distracted by their negativity and blinded by fear. I carry on walking and look out into the distance to see the never ending glistening blue water stretch and bend across the ground far beyond, its world within an exciting unknown. I look at the hills into the distance, cradling the sun in their dip, separating the flats of land so that the other side of them holds again the great unknown, to be explored and pondered. I found it hard when taking all this in to embrace any of my own fear and felt only overwhelmed with wonder and a desire to explore.

I see fear in the eyes of my passers by how the fear engulfed them. They are distracted by their fear, the negativity blinding them from what is so plainly in front. The masks they wear shadow them from the beauty and wonder of the land around. So where they must stop deflated and exhausted the excruciating agony of their fear grasping at their every ounce of attention and need. I will continue to pass by.

These people that pass me today, are chained by their fear, grounded to one spot the shear weight of their worry keeping them down.i look out at the pulsing beams of the sun, and step out into its marvellous wonder to explore, not chained but pulled by the magnetic glow of its mystery.