Not much time to play today, and a sense that worrying these pictures with too many words might just muck them up anyway.Above: One of what Mary refers to as her “Little Grandma Bowls” which she loaned me several days ago and which I then filled with Grape Hyacinths and moss.
Below: A few parsley roots gleaned from the garden last week while weeding. That need for living green in the house, unexpected green (ie, non-houseplant green) is really strong in me right now. I’ve been forcing all sorts of things simply to feed my own eyes and heart, and wondering what those of you in much harsher winter climates must do to maintain your “need for green” sanity. Staying sane here demands of me a certain amount of creative play and permission.
The visual effect you see is a sort of mosaic tile look created by making a duplicate of each image in photoshop, utilizing the “Texture/Patchwork” filter in Photoshop on that topmost layer and then dialing back the opacity of that layer so that you can see through it as if through a semi-sheer curtain to the sharper, untouched layer below. The images were photographed on my kitchen table about an hour ago with nothing more than soft gray window light. I set the containers on a sheet of textured handmade paper that I found in a store specializing in all things India, which I’d taped at the top to a piece of foamcore leaned up against the window and then curved out and beneath the bottle/bowl for that shadowed, but seamless background look. Hope there’s some magic here for your eyes as well.
Namasté
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