Overall

Vision Vision

Originality Originality

Technique Technique

Impact Impact

(My star ratings represent a sort of relative system in that I want to express the artist's success at some attributes as more complete than others even when the vision, originality, technique, and impact are all at superlative levels. Otherwise, with an image as fantastic as this one, I'd have to give scores beyond the range ["6/5 stars", e.g.])When I first saw the thumbnail for this image, before I noticed the title, I recognized the subject and theme immediately. That's very important to me when an photo, drawing, or painting uses an object in such an abstract way. The glare and flare are dramatic but don't obscure the subject.I considered the idea that art is a projection of the artist's inner world and how, when drawing and writing, creative ideas often seem to come out of nowhere or to be inspired by something outside the artist. This image, with the light's source shining into the typewriter from above it, presents that source as the writer herself. The diffuse light chopped up into hazy beams illuminates the inorganic machinery in a way that suggests breath, making the type hammers something like a rib cage.The tags on this image validate my Breath of Life interpretation: The (demi-)divine light of the muse cast into the author's work from her own deific, generative power.Would you look at that! This image inspired me to write an essay. Well done, *borda*!