Color Marinade: Nepal: Still Life-Seeing the Unseen

This stapled denim patch makes me want to make a bunch of them and staple them to a panel as a mixed media image or take a three dimensional object (a chair) and staple denim patches all over it.

This staircase was at the Shiva guest house. We had to traverse up it to visit the communal toilet. The sun casting it's shadows was perfect. The first image depicts the warmth of the sun and speaks of the hospitality and hope of a stairway going up to light. The second image becomes flat and speaks more to me of abstract beauty with its diagonal lines and semi-symmetric composition.

I shot about ten pictures of this scene and this is all I salvaged and this is even a cropped portion of the original. There was a dumb detail above the bowl on the background that was super distracting. I love ceramic and couldn't bear to not include something so here is my solution.

I usually shy away from "plastic" and "artificial" but this shot was too good colorwise to pass up. This is on the rooftop of the Shiva Guest House where we would hang out. At night the chairs were all turned upside down to keep the rain and dew off of the seat. I was intrigued by the chairs reflection in the rain soaked concrete.

This is the light that would have illuminated the rooftop had we hung out up there at night. I love light on metal. When I changed this image to grayscale, the pole, the wire and the background changed significantly but the color of the metal stayed the same. I decided the color was more of a distraction from what I was originally intending to capture.