Julia Margaret Cameron, in the age of soft focus, was criticized for her focus or lack thereof, and she responded by asking, "Who is to decide where the focus is?" The idea that there is a single point of focus may be true in some physical sense, but there is no truth to be had about this in the aesthetic sense. Indeed, in the days of soft focus lenses, different photographers might not agree on where the best looking focus was for the same image, and the instructions for these lenses spoke in terms of "firmness" and "softness," rather than of a single point of sharpest focus.
Even today, you can buy a Linhof selected Rodenstock Imagon, but they won't make a rangefinder cam for it, because the point of focus for any given subject distance is subjective.
I like this kind of experimentation in this image, and I think it works here.
I spend a lot of time assisting on commercial shoots, and I wanted to burn some film without metering, focusing, or even really thinking twice about what I was shooting. I was feeling a bit frusterated with the assumption that photographs have to be structured and precise to be "good." So, I shot through a couple rolls of film and I liked a few of the pictures - but I don't particularly know why, and it would be silly to put some sort of deep meaning behind it all ...
Pete - I've looked at this one several times now (so it does stand out from the crowd in that manner), but after some consideration, I can't make an interesting image out of it. It just doesn't work for me. Part of it may be that this is what things look like before I put my glasses on anyway, so its not new to me.
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