TITLE: Emotional Metadata: Amor Fati

Emotional Metadata is a series of Fine Art Photography projects which are an intimate exploration in expressing the world not as it is seen, but as it’s deeply felt.

These works are a visual response to the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s concept of Amor Fati.

Translated as the "love of one's fate".
An attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one's life, including suffering and loss, as good or, at the very least, necessary. 

Conceptually I take existing images of ‘perceived realities’ and overlay a second reality representing the hand of fate, metaphorically time travelling to creating new unimaginable future landscapes.

Whilst imbued with personal meaning, metaphor and allegory, the viewer is invited make their own interpretation of each image & may find meaning and symbolism that the artist never intended.

AUTHOR: Simon Ellingworth (United Kingdom)