Museum Staircase by durleybeachbum
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Russell Cotes Museum, Bournemouth on a very wet day.
We went to an 'Animals in Art' exhibition.
I rather resent having to make a £6 'donation' when I pay £250 community charge each month.
Comments (8)
anahata.c
there's really quite a bit going on in this shot; if one zooms, they see added grain and other things you've done to coax out line and shape, etc. It's almost a ghostly piece. The key thing is that strange ghostly intrusion of the outside world along the windows. It just pours into the always pristine interior of a museum. (Museums feel so clean and protected, don't they, like if the whole city were wiped out, museums would remain untouched.) Here, they're intruded-upon by this wild wet world outside, drooping down the window like apparitions. It canopies the interior, while the museum glows eerily underneath. Fascinating, Andrea! With all kinds of ambiguity and mixed realities; and a golden museum inside it all. (It glows gold.) It's the 'easter egg' of this shot...
And btw, you pay £250 per month for community matters? I assume the museum is one of those? And the museum wants more, when you walk in the door? It's tough isn't it: We want museums to flourish, but they are so very expensive. When I saw what conservators did---and how long it took them---I began to understand something about their costs. And then purchasing art, and storing it in those ultra-controlled environs. And then insurance. And on and on. If communities supported these things well, it wouldn't cost so much to go inside more than once a year. And if the cities used their taxes well, maybe these museums would be more sufficient. Come to Chicago, see what they do with your taxes: The word "patronage" was invented in this town. "Fat cats" doesn't refer to the lions in front of our Art Institute, believe me. I guess museums will become an institution for the very rich, along with so much else...
wysiwig
This is pretty spacey, as if you are passing through some sort of portal.
MrsRatbag
Layers of reality, what a beautiful reality you have captured!
Djavad
Comme une invitation pour un voyage hors norme !
pat40
That is expensive £6, it is so naughty , but lovely Pic
CavalierLady
I like the portal comment... like traveling through a portal from the world of nature to the human world of glass and steel. Very cool abstract image Andrea.
kgb224
Wonderful capture Andrea. God bless.
auntietk
I'm sure you know how much I like this. A fantastic reflection shot!