{"id":87,"date":"2010-09-18T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/?p=87"},"modified":"2026-06-15T01:33:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T01:33:48","slug":"art-of-triptychs-diptychs-and-polytychs-intuition-versus-intellect-left-versus-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Art of Triptychs, Diptychs and Polytychs &#8211; Intuition Versus Intellect, Left Versus Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3005\/2691988405_8d71c18147_o.jpg\" title=\"Yin Yang Cityscape by Metrix X, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Yin Yang Cityscape\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3005\/2691988405_8d71c18147_o.jpg\" width=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nA few years ago I started a small group on flickr called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/triptychs_and_diptychs\/\">Art of Triptychs, Diptychs and Polytychs<\/a>. The form fascinates me but I can&#8217;t help wondering how some of the contributers to the&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/triptychs_and_diptychs\/pool\/show\/\">pool<\/a> do such a superb artistic and aesthetic job of choosing their images.<br \/>\nI confess my own polytychs are not very artistic. I&#8217;m a pretty equal  right brain\/left brain type of guy. Unfortunately this doesn&#8217;t mean I&#8217;m  balanced, quite the opposite  at one moment of time I am either one or  the other not both.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"zemanta-img separator zemanta-action-dragged\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/14\/Chimp_Brain_in_a_jar.jpg\/300px-Chimp_Brain_in_a_jar.jpg\" style=\"display: block;margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A chimpanzee brain at the Science Museum London\" height=\"378\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/14\/Chimp_Brain_in_a_jar.jpg\/300px-Chimp_Brain_in_a_jar.jpg\" style=\"border: medium none;font-size: 0.8em\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zemanta-img-attribution\" style=\"clear: both;margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\">Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Chimp_Brain_in_a_jar.jpg\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center\">\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>For me polytychs are particularly hard art form because as soon as I  start to think about joining 2 or more images together the reasoning\/logical  side of my brain switches in blocking out any intuition and creativity.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3394\/3335500340_1062cf580b_o.jpg\" title=\"Off And On by Metrix X, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Off And On\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3394\/3335500340_1062cf580b_o.jpg\" width=\"784\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nI don&#8217;t have this problem with in camera <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metrix_feet\/sets\/72157605279816676\/show\/\">double exposures<\/a>. I either plan the 2 shots before I take the first  one or I take the first shot and hold it in my mind until I find  something that fits with the first shot as the second exposure. In either case when I&#8217;m photographing my brain is usually in creative mode. I have been practising doing double exposures for several years now so even the planning is subconscious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago I started a small group on flickr called Art of Triptychs, Diptychs and Polytychs. The form fascinates me but I can&#8217;t help wondering how some of the contributers to the&nbsp; pool do such a superb artistic and aesthetic job of choosing their images. I confess my own polytychs are not very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,5,2,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-creativity","category-diptychs","category-photo","category-polytychs","category-triptychs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88,"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}