Summary Of Twilight By Gregory Crewdson

Why is there a tree in the middle of bedroom? When working with the work of Gregory Crewdson, an American photographer who often depicts homes and neighborhoods, the world may never know for sure. Rick Moody makes a valid point in the essay preceding Crewdson’s Twilight photo essay: “And that’s why the twilight photographs we have before us both seem to be easy to interpret and very difficult at the same time. If you could figure a photograph out in three minutes and forty-five seconds, you wouldn’t want to look at it anymore” (Moody, p. 8). Crewdson’s photos are complex and their meanings obscure in such a way that they allow our storytelling minds to run free. As stated in Gottschall’s The Storytelling Animal, “It [the storytelling mind] is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful patterns in the world, it will try to impose them,” (Gottschall, p.103). It is because of the storytelling mind that one is able to look at one of Crewdson’s photographs and make assumptions about the story behind it. Where plate 23 is concerned, Crewdson
Not only are his clothes dirty, but his sleeves are torn off. As he stands in a hole that must have been caused by the tree, one can see exposed pipes and beams. His shoulders are slumped and the rope in his hand is slack as the room is covered in shadows due to the late hour of the day. Though we can not see his face, from his posture and actions one can infer that he is exhausted, and frazzled by the state of his room. While help seems to be nonexistent at the moment, the man is trying to do something to return his room back to natural order. Odds are, his current appearance is due to hours of lifting and pulling the tree from the hole with the aid of the ropes. The back of his shirt and his sleeves very easily could have been caught on abandoned nails that used to hold floor boards together as he worked inside the