The two works that are being compared are The Flooded Grave and A Sudden Gust of Wind. The Flooded Grave was taken on 1998, in two different cementaries.The photograph was completed in two years. I chose the second picture because both pictures look alike. The structure of the picture is very similar to the first picture.
The Flooded Grave was characterized by Jeff Wall as a "moment in a cementary". It is described as the person standing before the flooded hole and looking into it, the person for one reason or another thinks of it as the oceans bottom. In the photograph we see a cementary towards the back, however in one of the squares we see a grave filled with water. Next to it we see a pill of dirt, just as a grave. The picture was taken during the day.
A Sudden Gust of Wind is one of Jeff Wall's early digital montages.In the picture Wall transforms the nineteenth-century Japanese scene to a contemporary cranberry farm. The picture shows the natural force and how people from the city are so impressed by it.This photograph was taken over 100 times in one year to be able to achieve what they wanted.
Both of these photographs were taken during the day. They both show water. These two photographs also send somewhat the same message to the reader. In one it explains to us how the mind imagines things and makes it seem as if we were in the oceans when in reality we are in a cementary, the second one also shows us how our minds play games with us. The city people are so caught up in what they are doing that they seem to not see the reality of nature.
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