Salford, 14th August 2019
Someone at the depot, didn’t really
Enjoy the manual extraction of
Paper , Metal , Plastics and Glass
As they passed him by on the conveyor belt
Reaction ? swift as bright coloured cousins joined the usual receptacle
And Markets created to conjure household rubbish by the
Tonne, into something much more pleasing to the
Eye, as yesterdays news transformed into blank new canvas
#Freedomofexpression #Art
A response to the latest challenge from Iscriblrs Freedom of expression series
(and yes – I will be getting arty with his one!)
A pencil and paper – the start of the process
Composing where the individual flowers went
Encapsulating the sandstone sundial at its heart
Transferred to hardened plastic
And painted in translucent paint
The final result ? A stained window without glass –
Exceptional
Like this one ? feel free to check out Reflection
#FFFC #Abandoned #Derelict #Brokenwindows
with thanks to Aron Jäger@unsplash.com for providing the Image
I remember the weeks before the builders moved in
the children, were now learning – in bright shiny blocks
up the road in the next district
whilst the old building sat – a nest for the birds
and a target for vagabonds with little on their minds
smashed glass and vibrant graffiti the order of the day
as the old iron gates sat rusting
waiting for the wrecking balls to arrive
Wednesday 13th February
They put the bins out last night
The value of last weeks news dropped dramatically
As it waits for the refuse van
To take it to the paper mill
While bottles of plastic and glass
And tins and cans
Await their next transformation
Into the latest big thing
A response to #Iscriblr’s Freedom of Expression challenge
Where I’ve come with my new hobby
It was never about capturing a moment
blink at the wrong time – it was gone
hands gripped around the camera
like my life depended on it
but then with the picture
of a simple silver garden decoration
I saw something looking back at me
in a moment of wonder
I was taking a picture of something
and taking a picture of myself at the same time…
“Taking the rough with the smooth”
Raised impressions of copper coins
Out of the Aquarium, smooth glass beads fool the fish
Under the fingers, some textures provide something to hold on to
gritty sand , much like the coastal rock it came from and
Home to a variety of creatures, whose armour mirror their own.
“A Snails eye view’
#photography #closeup #abstract
“You are a noisy mollusc….” Dougal the Dog to Brian the Snail – Magic Roundabout
This was a toughie when working on #challenge30, I mean – how do you get a snails eye view ?
You would have to be a snail wouldn’t you?
I let my imaginary snail loose around the house – where he found, in the kitchen, ready to be recycled this glass bottle – with the contents consumed it made a nice mirror for him to look in…(chortle)
Camera engaged for this one, my Sony DSC H300 – Great for close ups like this, the beading on the bottom of the glass look like beads…
#Promptuarium #HugeCreatures
we went looking for bugs in the garden
each of us using a magnifier,
every kind of insect was spotted
varying from a caterpillar to a spotty ladybird
in fact many were interested in our
looking glass – 7 weevils in a line looked like monsters!
Each piece carefully crafted
laid out and fixed into place
creating a picture for the eye
sometimes you have to take a step back
but as you do the pieces of the jigsaw come in
sharp in focus
brought about by a fall from grace
refractions in the glass begin to congregate
over time they form channels which
keep on getting bigger till
eventually…there’s the sound of parting atoms … and theres
nowt left to do but to wrap up the broken bits and put them in the bin
