Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Park, Hardwick, Vermont

Painted Walls

For some reason I'm seeing more and more painted walls around. Decoration in parks, or downtowns. Here the low wall surrounding the little park is inset with panels of mosaic, but then there's the weird wash of pale pastel purple fading to white on the big wall at the back. One thing I wonder is whether at some point this section of wall was used as a downtown outdoor movie theater. The proportion of the finished section is perfect for 'scope projection, if it was originally painted flat white.

1 comment:

Carl Weese said...

Tony,

Always delighted to be a bad influence!

The great photography teacher/writer David Vestal often stresses how important it is that we learn to take our own pictures, not somebody else's. Giving yourself permission to photograph what interests you, just because it interests you, whether or not you think anyone else will be interested, is a good step in that same direction.