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Look closely.....finding meaning in a welcome mat

last year

What do you see and what does it mean to you?

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satine100

last year

I just see a welcome mat at a home in a snowy place. That's all I got.

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colleenoz
last year
I see people leaving, possibly because they don't feel welcome.
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Annie Deighnaugh
last year
I see people arriving
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colleenoz
last year
I originally thought that too, but it seems to me that the direction they are leaning and the way the knees bend, they're moving off towards the right mostly.
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pugga
last year
Someone's worn out their welcome.
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jkayd_il5
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That the door handle it on the right and more foot traffic on that side.
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marilyn_c
last year
Agree with Pugga.
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tsugajunkie z5 SE WI ♱
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Come in from the cold?

tj
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Rusty
last year
I see an aerial shot of a crowd of people forming what is supposed to be a doormat around the word 'welcome' on a snowy background. No idea what any hidden meaning might be.

Rusty
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eld6161
Original Author
last year
I’m enjoying the speculation so far. I actually like yours better than the artists.

I will post the answer later in the day
Mrs. S
last year
I don't even think that's a welcome mat... it's photoshopped art... and I think it has to do with many people feeling welcomed somewhere.... (across an international border?)
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roxanna
last year
Looks like an overhead photo of snowy landscape with lots of evergreen trees to me.... Beauty of and in Nature.
smiling
last year
The welcome is "melting away" from the right. 😎
socks
last year
It's people!
carolb_w_fl_coastal_9b
last year
It's a concrete doorstep and teeny tiny people are coming and going. You can see the wood frame at the upper edges. Light source is on the right - approx. 5 o'clock-ish, so shadows fall to the left, approx. 10 o'clock-ish.
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heatheron40
last year
People come and people go, but they are always - welcome ??
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olychick
last year
I was the same as Satine, seeing only a welcome mat covered with snow. I couldn't imagine how anyone was seeing people! Then, once I saw them...well, there they were.
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eld6161
Original Author
last year
The artist’s explanation:
Rusty
last year
^^^ Interesting!

Rusty
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Adella Bedella
last year
My personal take was that I sometimes like art just for the sake of seeing it without any special meaning. The artist explanation makes me think he's feeling sorry for himself.
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eld6161
Original Author
last year
It’s one of those make a statement pieces!
palisades_
last year
Imagine you are one of those people who got stepped on repeatedly.
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blfenton
last year
But I wonder if a group of people that I think has been stepped over by society consider themselves "tiny" people who have been stepped over. The use of the word "tiny" to describe people is somewhat derogatory.
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eld6161
Original Author
last year
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Blfenton. I don’t see it that way. They are purposefully painted small so that you initially don’t realize what they are.

I don’t think the artist meant the people are themselves tiny, in other words unimportant .

And, the description is not by the artist.
Olychick
last year
I interpret ”stepped over” very differently than how I see using a wecome mat - something to deliberately stand ON, and also wipe your feet on. You don’t step over a welcome mat.
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jane__ny
last year
People leaving.
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