Found Street Object #3
An old dial-up telephone, a dish full of fallen Frangipanis, a postcard of Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ and an old tin of feathers from the local birds and cloth work together as part meditation on the vagaries of time and on the transient nature of things.
I found these things (with the exception of the ‘Sunflowers’ postcard) for Found Street Object #3 on the streets around where I live. This was the first time I had seen a telephone of this vintage on the streets before. It was my rare find and the hero for the March composition.
I can remember the time when telephones were tethered to a special place in the house.
From the pen of Charles Baudelaire, one of my favourite writers and observers on modernity, comes this quote which fits with my thinking on some of the symbolism making its way out of this composition…
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
Charles Baudelaire
Found Street Object #3 was photographed using Hipstamatic and the combination of Blanko 1 film and Florence lens.
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