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Farrago #47

Not all of my photos are of man-made objects; Farrago Series or otherwise; nature has its share of interesting layers and patterns.

Farrago #10

Farrago: a confused mixture; hodgepodge; medley. The Farrago series is just that, layering abstract details of found objects: combining rusty car fenders with boat hulls; dumpsters with broken glass, etc. to create abstract images from an improbable fusion of actual objects.

(You may notice a bit of Trainting #31 in Farrago #10)

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." - Edgar Degas

Training #31

The Training Series is comprised of compositions involving sections of graffiti painted on train cars; paintings and trains; Trainings. Shot on the same day as Trainting #39, I actually shot the same two freight cars again in a different location about a half a year later.

Trainting #39

I am drawn to subjects that have layers exposed by weathering which catalog the chain of events that has befallen the object I am photographing; often a collusion of man & nature. This shot is a section of graffiti on a freight car.

Orono #35

I was up in Orono when I chanced upon a vintage auto boneyard. The owner was not in, but I was allowed to roam around without my camera. I left the yard & stopped at the end of the road when a car turned in & stopped, the driver rolled down his window and looked at me. He said: “Oh, you’re not who I thought you were.” and I said: “No, but I think I know who you are; you own the auto boneyard at the end of this road.” He did, and I asked if I could photograph the yard. He was reluctant, like many of the owners of old car boneyards, but I told him what I was looking for aesthetically & mentioned that I had a portfolio with me that I would be glad to show him. He got out of his car & I laid out my work on the hood of mine; he approved and allowed me to shoot. Orono 35 is a shot of a car hood (late ‘60’s, I think) that I found laying on the ground just as I was wrapping up the shoot because it was beginning to rain which contributed the dark areas.

Sadly the yard has since been crushed as many have been; not many vintage boneyards are left, especially in the Northeast.