Nineteenth century German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, spent the 1870’s deliberating the question of ‘what is truth?’ Nietzsche believed that truth cannot be recognized; stating that everything that is knowable is an illusion. He declared knowing always involves creating transference of meaning which people associate with metaphors. The reason that all knowledge involves metaphors is that knowing is supposed to be ‘adequate expression of an object in the subject’. And since the ‘subject’ and the ‘object’, the ‘knower’ and the ‘known are imagined to be radically independent of each other, knowing always demands a ‘transfer’ or a ‘copy over’ from one sphere into the other. This is seen as concept formation and it is these concepts that construct our world and our reality. Nietzsche viewed this concept as the creation of illusion meaning that there are no absolutes.

I wanted, through the creation of this image, to highlight the reality of one’s world without metaphors to illustrate ones own reality without illusions. Encasing the subject within their illusion, reasserting and reaffirming that all is construction and myth.

To create this image the process i used was shooting the naked woman standing up right with her arms slightly forward and with her neck towards her chin so it would give the impression of her hair flowing straight and that she was falling. I shot the image with a muzzled back drop. Once the first part of the image was shot i then moved in close for a head shot so i could gain more detail in the womans red hair. Once i had this shot i then shot one of the womans lower legs with the foot hovering off the ground at an angle. Once i had these 3 components of the image i then merged them in Photoshop rotaed the woman 90 degrees anti clockwise and this would then show the image of a woman naked fallen backwards and downwards into nothing so representing Nietzsche's concept that all is construction and myth and without it there is nothing.