Layers

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
- Richard Avedon (1923-2004)

You have seen them before, the fluffies which are growing randomly at one of the crosswalks at my university. I have no idea why they were planted there; the scene looks like Somewhere Else Entirely. So what does that mean for me, as a photographer? What obligations do I have to the viewer? Do I explain the story, where they are, and how they don't belong? Or do I just present the image at face value, as a cool collection of fuzzy layers, and run with that?

Which do you rather? The Picture, or the Story?