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The more I see the less I understand
I’ve seen this old gate before. A lot of times. But it wasn’t until I made this image that I noticed that the window seems to be at the bottom of the gate. That doesn’t seem exactly right.
Nor, of course, does a gate-window seem quite right.
Yellowhouse Canyon, Texas
photographed 12.5.2015
There was no explanation
I just really don’t have any idea what this was all about. There’s not one thing there that makes the least bit of sense to me.
(UPDATE: the chairs, lamp, and table are gone. Only the curtains remain.)
(UPDATE, updated: My friend Ron is Facebook friends with an woman named Terry Gilmore Fritz, who did the installation as part of a photography class. According to Ron, she set it up so passsersby could “shoot people while in the scene.” So it totally makes sense that I saw it, stopped, and made photos without people. That’s comforting, somehow.)
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 12.4.2015
Buy 1 Get 1
For various reasons, I’ve been in a bit of a shooting slump lately.
But I feel like I might be coming back. On Thursday morning, I noticed the way the sunlight played across this roadside fireworks stand. And on Friday, I brought my camera, pulled off the road, and made a few images. It felt right.
(Also, for you fireworks shoppers out there, it’s Buy 1 Get 1 every day.)
Smyer, Texas
photographed 12.4.2015
What happened on Friday
First of all, my good photography pals Brett Erickson, Liz McCue, and George Nobechi Bumstead all showed up in Lubbock. That alone would have made for an excellent weekend. But there’s more.
All of us had images in the High and Dry show at the International Cultural Center at Texas Tech, so it was fun to form our own little art mob to go to the opening reception.
And, then, much to my very great surprise, I found out that the juror, Miguel Gandert, had awarded third place to my image, Sad Trailer.
It was a very, very good day.
Valentine, Texas
photographed 7.11.2015
