/lit/ - Literature

>>13471171
>What you are describing is the sensation of alienation. Most people confuse it with the sublime.
I'm not confusing the two at all.

>The reason it has mixed reactions is because you're not actually looking at the photo itself, but instead trying to emotionally turn away. Because the object is alien and impenetrable and ultimately empty, you begin to grab at whatever emotions you can. You imprint on it whatever it can hold, which is very little.
Every artistic work has "mixed reactions" when you introduce it to multiple vastly different cultural groups. What you're describing is your own experience and not everyone's.