Month: June 2021

While I was taking pictures of some found glasses, I had a thought about using ice as a prop. The inter-play of light and shadow created various different shapes. For example, in the first one can see on the bottom right, the profile of a person (a Mayan may be) looking down. It speaks to…

“Allium tricoccum known as ramp, ramps, ramson, wild leek, wood leek, or wild garlic is a North American species of wild onion widespread across eastern Canada and the eastern United States. Many of the common English names for this plant are also used for other Allium species, particularly the similar Allium ursinum, which is native…

I am continuing on the theme of food, presented as a still life. Even though there are six bananas in each bunch, when I saw the image it reminded me of the fingers on a prone hand, which made me think of all the things a hand itself stands for. Hand images have been around…

As a means of managing the scope of my Basement Archeology project, and making the work a little more relatable, I’ve decided to narrow the focus along a food theme. This approach will allow me to contrast then and now. Yet even within this refinement there are many topics that each in themselves could be…

This is a redo of a photograph I made earlier. Comparing the two offers a sense of the difference light makes. To restate what I said before, this ashtray was from my grandfather; he enjoyed a big cigar. In the 1960s it was still ok to smoke; fine restaurants often employ cigarette girls, who would…