Agog: what happens inside the viewer when the concept, the composition, and the colors all mesh. As in, I’m all agog. As in, Don’t stagger; you’ll crash into someone and embarrass yourself.
The photo above was wrangled and created by Eugenio Ampudia, the Spanish photographer. At the end of the COVID lockdown he organized a concert for 2,292 plants in El Liceu Teatre, Barcelona: the number that would fill the theater seats. The string quartet played Puccini’s “Crisantemi.” You can watch a video of the action on the artist’s website. He did a series of five photographs, the majesty of which the reproduction above cannot adequately convey. The viewer staggers, indeed: the size, the colors, the beauty of the setting — the plants!