Light & Glass: Unstrung ... by auntietk
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A long time ago in a land far away, there was an artist who went by the handle of Unstrung65. He produced many great works, among them a few still life pieces featuring antique and interesting bottles. Standing in the office of the Mackay mansion in Virginia City, Nevada yesterday, those bottles came back to me like no time had passed at all.
He got fed up and deleted his gallery, and the last time I saw him he was alive and well over on DA.
No other title came to me for this one ... it just spoke to me of Doug (Unstrung65) and if it makes sense to nobody but me, I'm okay with that.
Cheers, old friend! May you create as long as you live!
Comments (33)
debbielove
A lovely array of ancient bottles.. Such beauty in practical tings then, don't you think? Rob
anahata.c
I'm skipping ahead 7 pages, but I'm at 6 images tonight, and since I write so much, it's taken me over almost 2 hours (from the time I started writing, at least). As I want to visit Bill too, I'll stop here for now and return to you again in this month of commenting...But I chose this on instinct, it just called me. (Well, that's how I choose every image I choose in these "representative" sessions; but this one felt more instinctive than most, because there's something inexplicable about it, to me.). I'll have to check out Unstrung65, on DA. And I'm a bit confused about these bottles: Are they sculptures/still lifes that he actually made? You don't mean that, right---I assume you saw them where you were, and they 'reminded' you of his work...Well, whatever it is, your image is full of mystery, harshness, hiddenness, revelation, lots of thick dark, and a sense of age which has achieved a marbly beauty from years of neglect and even struggle. Only a few photographers here do what you've done with glass, and does it show here: The patterns here seem almost like the translucent light we see in marble and other crystal-laden rocks. I don't know what all that 'stuff' is, in the bottles---years of grime and detritus, I assume---but your representation of it is sublime, wonderfully patterned and translucent. The lights are beautiful against all that black, and the angle of the shot moves us upward, from right to left, and almost feels like a skyline. There are deep reds there too, in the lower surface and through some of the rest of the image; and wonderful blue reflections in what I assume is a mirror. It's as if we're seeing bottles for the first time...A beautiful image, and a beautiful homage to this artist. I'll be back for more this month---if I didn't write so much, I could do 4 times as many, but I wanted to sit with these and dwell on them and bask in them, and so I only did 6...(I'm not new to them as I did see them when they all went up; but I'm seeing them fresh now, and they're not diminished one little bit...) Beautiful.
varanasi
Wow, another place we have shared now. I have been here too many times to count in my life! Our family would go to Tahoe every year for skiing and would inevitably spend a day in Virginia City each trip just having some fun. I would love to return as an adult and photographer now. Its a treasure trove for us shutter bugs!!!! Go if you can!!!! Nice capture Tara. I love the crispness of the colors.