"What I try to achieve is to set up concepts using the human body as a base, while not making it the main focus of the picture. The result is a still image that is built around a person, but all parts of the whole are of equal importance. I reduce my pictures to content, composition, and form because this minimalist approach allows me to put equal emphasis on the idea behind the artwork and the entirety of the image. Portraying a sense of calmness with images that are built up based on geometric shapes is a recurring theme of my work."
~ Noell Oszvald
Noell Oszvald's photographs are beautifully composed and visually alluring. This image is one of her best. There's something about the balance of figure, tree and shadows that keeps me coming back to it.
Perhaps it is a distant echo of the Greek myth of the nymph Daphne who transformed into a laurel tree to escape the unwanted affections Apollo. How does this image speak to you?