Response to Work by Gottfried Helnwein

The image is a man trying to climb a women's face. I am not certain what is going on but I think the man is trying to learn more and understand the woman in greater depth. Thus the reason why he is supposedly climbing the face of the woman, so he can learn about her in greater depths by the face of the woman. I think this is an artistic photoshopped image. I can determine this because someone cannot possibly climb the literal face of someone else. The artist most likely took the image of an actual climber and photoshopped it upon the face of the woman. The difference in the scale may represent how much the woman means to the climber. The aspect of the woman being quite larger than the man may mean that she has a great significance in the climber's life. So, my interpretation of this image is that the climber supposedly likes the girl and wants to learn more about her so he can perhaps impress her.

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