i WAS a water buffalo

The monochrome image presents a timeless diorama, contrasting its stillness with the world's dynamism. This frozen scene underscores life's impermanence and our attempts to immortalize moments. Photography, capturing fleeting instances, blurs reality and illusion, sometimes distorting the truth. This diorama, a constructed representation of nature, intensifies this illusion when photographed. Such portrayals push us to reevaluate our perceptions, blurring the lines between reality and interpretation, and challenging our understanding of truth.