I was walking through the belly of the Port Authority bus terminal last week, I happened to have my camera on me … and when I have my camera on me, it’s like my actual VISION changes, and instead of not seeing things, because I see them every day … I see EVERYthing, as a possibility, as something to be saved.
When you enter the subway terminal 1 floor down in Port Authority, you come thru the turnstiles – and over to the left, randomly, is a tiny store. A small glass box – surrounded by tile and concrete. You need to be buzzed in to even enter. It’s a “portrait” store … elaborate frames, cheeseball paintings – and the other day, as I walked by, it’s like i saw, for the first time really, the absurdity of such a store. The lighting in there, as opposed to out in Port Authority where it is fluorescent and practical, is dramatic and elegiac. Almost religious in nature.
Check it out. I just love the two “portraits” they have chosen to represent their store.
Jesus and Marilyn – makes perfect sense to me :)
How are you, darling girl? Feeling any better? Taos has SNOW already, can ya dig?
xx Stevie
Stevie – Dean is snowbound??? I need to rush to his side with hot chocolate and furry slippers IMMEDIATELY!!
Definitely – cocoa, a nice warm piece of pumpkin bread, and a pair of warm flannel pajamas with little dice all over it!!
Wow, this is amazing… Jesus and Marilyn!!! I am delighted!!!! I think I could be best friends with the store owners… :)))
I really can’t get the smile out of my face, I tell you! Love it, love it, LOVE it, seriously!
And look how they illuminated Jesus’ face AND Marilyn’s, while ignoring the frame in the middle, hahaha!
Oh, and regarding how you feel when you walk around with your camera: that happens to me as well, I look at everything as a potential photograph, I look at light and shadow, combinations of colors, situations, people… it’s so fun, actually!
Unfortunately, after being robbed on the street a couple times recently, I now refrain from walking around alone on the streets with a camera. But I take pics constantly in my head! ;)
Ceci – Sorry about you being robbed! Yuk!!!
I know – I love how the lighting blows off the painting in the middle – it’s shadowed in darkness. Ha!!
Jesus, Marilyn & Joseph. Has a nice ring to it…
I know what you mean about seeing everything as a possibility with a camera. My dad got his first digital camera five years ago and has taken thousands and thousands of pictures of mostly local scenery and people. He goes through artistic phases, and cameras. His first one didn’t have much resolution (a mostly hazy phase), his second was left in a restaurant on vacation and his third got a cracked screen when he had it in his pocket, jumping on the trampoline with the grandkids. He keeps it up though, it’s just too fun to stop. (Both the trampoline and the photography.)
EMS – I am in love with your father.