Dense. Speak the word aloud. The mouth experiences tightness of one syllable being expressed. The word is itself dense–an expressive adjective, a photographic theme that ranges from lush greenery to dim-witted souls.
I am a writer consumed by and attuned to words so I leapt at this week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge. Such prompt encouraged me to scour my portfolio this afternoon. Quelle menage de dense!
Dense is defined by The Cambridge Dictionary as boasting three adjectival meanings:
- Thick: ‘having parts that are close together so that it is difficult to go or see through’
The density of these woods one gorgeously warm day last summer offered us coveted shade where our bodies cooled amongst beauty, whilst still glimpsing the sun.
2. Matter: ‘physics (of a substance) containing a lot of matter in a small place’
Like my luscious, three-tiered chocolate cake pictured above, these homemade brown bread baked goods are every morsel an adventure in delicious density.
3. Stupid: self-explanatory (unless you consider yourself to be dense)
My all-time favourite The Far Side single-panel comic. Gary Larson encapsulates human denseness with artistic panache!
Dense woods, dense deliciousness, dense mind–I am mulling over the sublime and the ridiculous of language today while ogling my photographs. I also think about a brilliant music festival I am looking forward to attending soon, with its exciting spectacle of observing and joining a dense crowd of dancing bodies in a sunny field. Magic awaits when you slip into the dense.
Estella Lynch 