No context
A brick wall. A rolled-up snow fence. A boarded-up door. I like how they look together, but without the context of the whole building, or even the town itself, it’s hard to know what it all means…
Rockville, Nebraska
photographed 8.30.2014
Posted on November 28, 2014, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, abandoned buildings, architecture, black and white photography, melinda green harvey, monochrome, NIK Silver Efex Pro 2, one day one image, photo a day, photography, Rockville Nebraska. Bookmark the permalink. 17 Comments.
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It’s saying “I have a past, but no future…”
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It was a little hard to discern any future – other than eventual oblivion – in this town. Except for the bar, which was named The Dam Bar.
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The high step-up door or very low window is interesting, the rolled fence maybe telling us that it is okay to approach … ahh, but the bricks, what a furious visual sonata ! beautiful.
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Vera – I can almost always count on your comments to have a lyrical phrase in them, and this was no exception. “Furious visual sonata” was excellent!
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Wellll…thanks. It is that I like to play with words… like you do to with images.
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The bricklayer really had issues. Perhaps was even seeing things (other than a hod full of bricks and mortar and a trowel). You can see the idea of an arch made him (surely a him) anxious – the brick laying gets more haphazard as it gets near the arch level, and takes a bunch of courses afterwards to settle down again. To me it is a nearly permanent mental health map. Poor guy.
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Good eye to spot that! Let’s just hope he got the medical help he needed. And, maybe, found a new line of work that was less stressful.
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He would have been ok with just a plain wall, though not brilliant from the looks of things.
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Maybe he runs the bar across the street – it’s called the Dam Bar. He’s still bitter about the way his bricklaying career turned out.
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Bitter is a kind of beer, perhaps that is all they sell in the Dam Bar.
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You’re probably right. If I ever get back to that part of Nebraska I’ll research it and let you know.
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Maybe you could track down an empty.
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though out of the context of the whole building or the town, the image is still great for its textures and patterns…
thus it makes me now wonder about the whole building and town 🙂 🙂
great shot!!
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The town has only about 100 residents. Here’s a photo from Wikipedia – http://bit.ly/1BkF5f9 – that shows the main street of the town. The building on the far left is the same one that’s in my image.
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hey, thanks!!
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Cool. Just a collage of wonderful textures.
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Thank you, Tim.
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