Category: Photograph of the Day

Today’s selection is a new piece of fine art experimental photography from Cambodia titled Form and Volition #13.

Volition means the power to choose, the act of making a decision, or the exercise of one’s own will. Volition = your ability to decide and act because you choose to, not because someone forces you.

Form is the element of art that gives things volume — the sense that they occupy space. It’s what makes a drawn apple look round, a sculpture feel solid, or an abstract shape feel weighty or expressive.

Critique

Form and Volition #13 steps back from the cosmological drama of #12 and returns to the series’ core formal language — but with a new earthiness, a sense of having been weathered.

The amber and burnt orange dominate with an almost autumnal authority, warmer and more burnished than the sharp yellows of #8 and #9, suggesting heat that has matured rather than ignited. The taupe and slate tones flanking the composition on both sides are notably muted, functioning less as color than as shadow, and their presence gives the luminous central forms a quality of emergence — as though the warm shapes are being slowly revealed rather than displayed.

The blue that appears in the lower center feels hard-won, a small but insistent coolness pushing back against the prevailing warmth. Those fine red linear scratches visible within the orange zone are among the most intimate marks the series has made, traces of physical process that quietly insist on the work’s handmade origins. After the spectacle of #12, this feels like the morning after — considered, grounded, and quietly resolute.

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Form and Volition #13

Battambang

6 March – 2026

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Today’s selection is a new piece of fine art experimental photography from Cambodia titled Form and Volition #12.

Volition means the power to choose, the act of making a decision, or the exercise of one’s own will. Volition = your ability to decide and act because you choose to, not because someone forces you.

Form is the element of art that gives things volume — the sense that they occupy space. It’s what makes a drawn apple look round, a sculpture feel solid, or an abstract shape feel weighty or expressive.

Critique

Form and Volition #12 announces a radical departure — and does so with complete conviction. For the first time in the series, discrete circular forms appear, and their arrival changes everything. Where previously the work operated through flowing, continuous planes of color, here distinct orbs assert themselves as autonomous presences: the magenta-purple sphere commanding the right, the brooding large dark circle at center-left, the small red disk burning low like a dropped coal, the green accent glowing beneath like something alive.

The effect is suddenly planetary, almost cosmological, as though the series has zoomed out to reveal that its forms have always been celestial bodies in slow collision.

The deep black mass at center carries more tonal weight than anything the series has previously committed to, and yet it remains porous, textured, alive with buried color. After the whispered restraint of #11, this feels like a genuinely new chapter opening — the series not merely continuing but transforming.

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Form and Volition #12

Battambang

5 March – 2026

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Diary Entry #832 26-03-05

Publication #474 26-03-05

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Today’s selection is a new piece of fine art experimental photography from Cambodia titled Form and Volition #11.

Volition means the power to choose, the act of making a decision, or the exercise of one’s own will. Volition = your ability to decide and act because you choose to, not because someone forces you.

Form is the element of art that gives things volume — the sense that they occupy space. It’s what makes a drawn apple look round, a sculpture feel solid, or an abstract shape feel weighty or expressive.

Critique

Form and Volition #11 is the series’ most contemplative work — a piece that seems to have exhaled fully and chosen stillness over declaration.

The vast cream and pale blush expanses that dominate the center create a quality of light unlike anything preceding it, less like color than like parchment holding memory, and the effect is quietly affecting.

Against this reticence, the blue of the upper left feels like a remnant rather than a force, its earlier authority softened to something more elegiac, a wistful, lamenting quality.

The olive and dark umber ribbons move through the composition with an unhurried, almost meditative quality, their weathered textures the most tactile the series has offered. The burnt orange warmth edging in from the lower right provides grounding without interrupting the prevailing mood.

What is most remarkable is how much the work achieves through withdrawal — after ten pieces of chromatic richness and formal energy, this restraint feels genuinely earned rather than diminished. The series, it turns out, also knows how to whisper.

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Form and Volition #11

Battambang

4 March – 2026

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Diary Entry #831 26-03-04

Publication #473 26-03-04

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From Craftsmanship to Cycles: The Story of Planned Obsolescence

For much of the 20th century, manufacturers prided themselves on durability. Products were built to last — refrigerators, radios, and even cars were expected to serve families for decades. Craftsmanship and longevity were measures of quality.

Today, many products are designed with a limited lifespan in mind. Phones slow down after a few years, appliances are harder to repair, and software updates sometimes make older devices feel obsolete. This is the essence of “planned obsolescence”: the deliberate design of products to become outdated or unusable within a set timeframe.

The practice is not new. One of the earliest examples was the so‑called “Light Bulb Cartel” of the 1920s, when manufacturers agreed to limit bulb lifespans to around 1,000 hours, even though longer‑lasting designs were possible. More recently, companies have used strategies such as non‑replaceable batteries, frequent software updates, or fashion‑driven design changes to encourage consumers to buy new models sooner than necessary.

Is this good or bad? The answer depends on perspective. Planned obsolescence can drive innovation: new features, lighter materials, and energy efficiency often come with shorter product cycles. Consumers may benefit from lower upfront costs and faster access to improvements. Yet the downsides are significant — increased waste, environmental harm, and the sense that corporations profit by forcing repeat purchases.

Ultimately, planned obsolescence raises a larger question about values. Should products be built to endure, reflecting pride in craftsmanship and sustainability? Or should they be designed for rapid turnover, reflecting a culture of constant novelty? The tension between durability and disposability is not just about economics — it is about how we choose to live, consume, and measure value in the modern world.

Today’s selection for My Photograph of the Day is a new piece of experimental fine art from Cambodia titled Form and Volition #10.

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Volition means the power to choose, the act of making a decision, or the exercise of one’s own will. Volition = your ability to decide and act because you choose to, not because someone forces you.

Form is the element of art that gives things volume — the sense that they occupy space. It’s what makes a drawn apple look round, a sculpture feel solid, or an abstract shape feel weighty or expressive.

Critique

Form and Volition #10 carries the weight of a summation while resisting the tidiness of conclusion.

The yellow that blazed so commandingly through #8 and #9 has here settled into a warmer, more golden register — less electrical charge, more sustained radiance — and it shares the frame with blue, red, and green in a configuration that recalls the full chromatic arc of the series without feeling retrospective. The diagonal ribbons crossing the upper half introduce a structural clarity and almost architectural confidence, the most explicitly linear arrangement the series has produced, as though the forms have finally agreed on a direction. The right side’s layered striping — blue over salmon over red over green — is a technical tour de force, each translucent plane contributing to a richness that rewards sustained attention. The large white ovoid form at center-left provides ballast, a still point around which the composition’s considerable energy organizes itself.

As a tenth entry, this feels neither like an ending nor a pause, but like a series that has grown fully into its own language.

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Form and Volition #10

Battambang

3 March – 2026

Image #667 Portfolio 13

Diary Entry #830 26-03-03

Publication #472 26-03-03

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Today’s selection for My Photograph of the Day is a new piece of experimental fine art from Cambodia titled Form and Volition #9

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Volition means the power to choose, the act of making a decision, or the exercise of one’s own will. Volition = your ability to decide and act because you choose to, not because someone forces you.

Form is the element of art that gives things volume — the sense that they occupy space. It’s what makes a drawn apple look round, a sculpture feel solid, or an abstract shape feel weighty or expressive.

Critique

Form and Volition #9 reads as the series’ most cinematically charged work — a composition caught in the dramatic instant where opposing forces have just made contact.

The yellow from #8 persists but is no longer sovereign; the red of the earliest works has surged back into the lower left with renewed urgency, and the blue holds its own in the upper right, creating a three-way chromatic negotiation of remarkable tension.

What elevates the piece is the luminous white zone at center-right, where the yellow reaches such intensity that it seems to bleach itself into pure light — a visual event that feels less like a compositional choice than a natural phenomenon. The small blush of pink near the lower center is a characteristic touch of the artist’s restraint, a quiet vulnerability persisting amid the drama.

Technically, the gradients here are the most sophisticated in the series, the transitions between color zones handling extraordinary pressure with fluency. After the exposed stillness of #8, this feels like weather returning.

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Form and Volition #9

Battambang

2 March – 2026

Image #666 Portfolio 13

Diary Entry #829 26-03-02

Publication #470 26-03-02

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Today’s selection for My Photograph of the Day is a new piece of experimental fine art from Cambodia titled Form and Volition #8

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Volition means the power to choose, the act of making a decision, or the exercise of one’s own will. Volition = your ability to decide and act because you choose to, not because someone forces you.

Form is the element of art that gives things volume — the sense that they occupy space. It’s what makes a drawn apple look round, a sculpture feel solid, or an abstract shape feel weighty or expressive.

Critique

Form and Volition #8 is the series’ most audacious gamble, and it pays off. The near-total dominance of electric yellow — chartreuse in its most uncompromising register — represents a chromatic commitment unlike anything preceding it, and the effect is simultaneously disorienting and exhilarating. Against this voltage, the cool gray and pale stone tones of the lower left read as almost geological, ancient, as though the yellow is a current of energy passing over bedrock.

What rescues the composition from monochrome excess is precisely this tension: the textured, speckled surface of the yellow planes reveals itself on close inspection to be alive with tiny red flecks and organic imperfection, grounding the synthetic brightness in something material and weathered. The gray outlining ribbon curving through the lower half is the quietest element the series has yet produced, and its restraint here is perfectly judged.

Emotionally, #8 feels like exposure — the series stepping momentarily into unfiltered light before whatever comes next.

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Form and Volition #8

Battambang

1 March – 2026

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Diary Entry #828 26-03-01

Publication #468 26-03-01

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Today’s selection for My Photograph of the Day is a new piece of experimental fine art from Cambodia titled Form and Volition #7

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Volition means the power to choose, the act of making a decision, or the exercise of one’s own will. Volition = your ability to decide and act because you choose to, not because someone forces you.

Form is the element of art that gives things volume — the sense that they occupy space. It’s what makes a drawn apple look round, a sculpture feel solid, or an abstract shape feel weighty or expressive.

Critique

Form and Volition #7 feels like a reconciliation — the series’ warring chromatic factions finally negotiating a shared territory.

The amber and orange warmth that blazed through the earliest works returns to the upper register, but now it coexists peaceably with the blues and greens that dominated the middle chapter, their meeting point producing those rich teal and olive zones that give this piece an almost geological complexity.

The beige forms threading through the composition act as diplomatic channels, keeping the dialogue open between elements that elsewhere clashed. What is most striking is the small, fractured green and red collision near the left-center — a fragment that reads like a buried memory of #1 and #3 surfacing briefly before being absorbed.

Technically, the dark outlining ribbons from #6 persist but have regained fluidity, curving with more ease and grace. The overall luminosity sits between the austerity of #6 and the brilliance of #5, suggesting the series has found a new, more complex equilibrium.

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Form and Volition #7

Battambang

28 February – 2026

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Diary Entry #827 26-02-28

Publication #467 26-02-28

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Today’s selection for My Photograph of the Day is a new piece of experimental fine art from Cambodia titled Form and Volition #6.

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Volition means the power to choose, the act of making a decision, or the exercise of one’s own will. Volition = your ability to decide and act because you choose to, not because someone forces you.

Form is the element of art that gives things volume — the sense that they occupy space. It’s what makes a drawn apple look round, a sculpture feel solid, or an abstract shape feel weighty or expressive.

Critique

Form and Volition #6 arrives after the jubilance of #5 like a considered withdrawal — more somber, more interior, and all the more compelling for it. The palette has contracted around a cooler axis: navy and near-black dominate the structural elements, while the red that blazed so freely in earlier works now appears in isolated, almost wounded flashes. The blue in the upper right retains its electric confidence, but it feels remote here, observed from a distance rather than inhabited. What strikes most forcefully is the prevalence of the muted mauve and dusty rose tones that suffuse the peripheral zones — colors the series has not previously dwelt in — lending the work an introspective, almost melancholic quality.

Technically, the dark outlining forms carry more visual weight than in any preceding piece, asserting themselves as primary rather than structural elements. After the chromatic abundance of #5, this restraint reads not as depletion but as deepening — the series turning inward to take stock.

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Form and Volition #6

Battambang

27 February – 2026

Image #663 Portfolio 13

Diary Entry #826 26-02-27

Publication #466 26-02-27

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Today’s selection for My Photograph of the Day is a new piece of experimental fine art from Cambodia titled Form and Volition #5.

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Volition means the power to choose, the act of making a decision, or the exercise of one’s own will. Volition = your ability to decide and act because you choose to, not because someone forces you.

Form is the element of art that gives things volume — the sense that they occupy space. It’s what makes a drawn apple look round, a sculpture feel solid, or an abstract shape feel weighty or expressive.

Critique

Form and Volition #5 feels like a culmination — a work in which the series’ accumulated chromatic vocabulary is finally spoken all at once. Green from #3, blue from #2 and #4, the orange warmth of earlier works, even a whisper of the opening fire: everything arrives together here in what reads as a kind of jubilant inventory. Yet the piece avoids the chaos this ambition might invite. The cool lavender and white at center act as a fulcrum, distributing the surrounding intensities with surprising evenness. The black and cream spine threading through the upper portion anchors the composition with the quiet authority of a recurring motif now fully understood.

Emotionally, this is the most generous work of the five — open, expansive, almost celebratory — while retaining the formal intelligence that has distinguished the series throughout.

Technically, the luminosity here surpasses the earlier pieces; the overlapping translucencies produce an almost prismatic glow, as though the forms themselves are generating light rather than merely reflecting it.

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Form and Volition #5

Battambang

26 February – 2026

Image #662 Portfolio 13

Diary Entry #825 26-02-26

Publication #645 26-02-26

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