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I was thinking of the word Surrealistic . . . I don’t think it should be used exclusively with my photographs. The meaning is close but I think my tendencies are more toward the whimsical or absurd. Surrealism is more connected with morbidity. From that I am very far away. – Eva Fuka, 1999 |
What is happening in this photograph? Such an air of mystery surrounds these figures that we assume something has just happened, and we have happened upon the aftermath of the odd event. The tree at each vertical edge of the photo lends a feeling of peeking through the trees. We are witnesses to, not participants in the scene. The title only muddies the water - how can the three be alone when they are so together?
When questioned about the events in this photo, Eva Fuka protested, “If you want me to explain the picture, if you put it in reality, then the mystery goes away. The situation just catches you and you think it is absurd or mysterious and you just take the picture. You don’t want to see the bare reality of what happened. I took the picture as the picture, not as the realistic story of what happened.” (Interview with Eva Fuka, 1999)
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