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Nature and Art

Another weekend another Artists Open Houses neighborhood to explore, this time in Fiveways.

Inkpots

A stack of colorful paint buckets in various shades of blue, green, and black, with some paint splatters visible on the containers. — Industrial House, Hove

To reach Eunju Lee, a South Korean female luthier (last post), we walked through Inkspot Press and saw the screen, relief, letterpress and etching presses, and other paraphernalia.

Chairs

Some chairs in the window of a fast-food restaurant, as seen through the lightly telescopic 60mm macro lens (90mm equivalent) with a reflection of the lens in the upright at the centre.

I was inspired by some pictures Laura El Tantawy showed us from In the Shadow of the Pyramids at her recent presentation at POST, to start shooting very close up. I got out my 60mm f/2.4 macro lens and started using it as a walking around lens in the street to see what I might come up with. This is an atypical way to use such a lens so I’m really just experimenting to see what I can learn about shooting this way.

Abstract textured surface featuring a mix of dark and light wood shavings against a muted background. — Old Steine, Brighton

A group photo featuring three men; one man in the center with glasses and a neutral expression, while the two others on either side have markings over their faces. — Castle Square, Brighton

Corrosion

Fleurs du Mal?

Autumn Leaves

Last of the 2006 reach-backs.

Blue Bench

Remains

Paper Cut

At Owen Gildersleeve & Friends’ open studio we saw the work of cut paper artists (Owen Gildersleeve and Helen Ferry).

Calla

Common Ivy

Never Again

I wasn’t sure how to read this. Is it a defense (Jews must never be attacked again) or a rebuke of Israeli government policy (we must never allow another genocide of any people, like the one that happened to us)?

On the Beach

Good luck with that!

We went up to Presidio Park and visited the Junipero Serra Museum (the Spanish Missionary who planted a cross here, declaring the lands in the name of Christ). Afterwards we walked around the Park and eventually descended the hill to Old Town.

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