Kerosene Can Wall ... for Andrea by auntietk
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Description
Back in the gold-mining days of Bodie, California, one of the major sources of fuel was kerosene. It was shipped up the mountain in 5-gallon cans. Those cans were often re-used for practical purposes. This is the exterior wall of a warehouse, completely covered in metal shingles made from those kerosene cans.
Andrea, I thought of you when I was taking these pictures, and this was my first thought for your birthday this year. Hope you enjoy this bit of the beauty of frugality and practicality! :)
Happy Birthday, Andrea!
Comments (23)
What a neat idea. And what a great shot Tara. I hope you are ok now? Eye woes? Happy birthday to our friend.
Practical ANd actually beautiful and artistic as well. Who would think kerosene cans could be turned into such an artsy wall? Thanks for sharing and Happy Birthday again to Andrea. :)
Fascinating capture, and I love the history behind it. Good stuff.
An early example of recycling? I love the tonal variations & rusty textures of these shingles. Happy Birthday to Andrea!
Cool textures and designs....
absolutely beautiful
Very cool shot Tara.
A wonderful can did shot and dedi Tara.
Such a beautiful capture. These are wonderful colors most often found in nature. I believe this pattern would make a fantastic quilt.
Up-cycling of the very best ! What a wow of an image ! Thankyou for thinking of me, Tara, and for this beautiful photo.
I can't stop looking at the infinite tones and subtleties of colour.
Superb capture and dedication Tara. Happy birthday Andrea. God bless.
Cans!! Ingenuity and art, walk together, in reality. I couldn't imagine from where this had come, if you had not told:) ...the shingles are so perfectly cut and placed together and with so much expertise. I LOVE this a lot, Tara and i agree fully with Andrea about the subtleties of the tones. This is a wonderful and unexpected image, again,Tara. And still most importantly, it is that i can see how this is a dedi straight from your heart for Andrea and I see how she loved it !! Happy Birthday Andrea, again:)
Sweet discovery and dedication to Andrea. I love all the tones and hues
WOW!!! This is Very COOL!!!
While I wouldn't light any matches around it, it does make for a really neat image. Some wonderful hues and textures. Seen from a distance it resembles aged leather.
Bravo. Excellent rusty textures and lighting.
WOW !! You have a wonderful sense of image. Superb capture !!
Fantastic find, look at all those lines and blocks and endless rusty colours! Cool shot and dedi!
This would so go straight into my textures folder. You know I love this stuff, T.
wow, what a object for a great picture, superb light and shadow, I like it very much perfect penfant to Andrea's padlocks 😄👌🏼
Oh, I love this! Wow - I'd love to have a wall like that.... I need to find a buttload of old kerosene cans, now... Jo would kill me, though... LOL That's an awesome shot, Tara!
Awesome BD dedication!
It struck me, when I began this comment, that most of your uploads, since your eye problem took over, have been dedications. So I'm in the embarrassing position of saying "happy birthday" to people weeks to months late! But also, with my tasteless alter-ego always showing up: When you gave your reasons for making this for Andrea, I couldn't help think of what you could've written---"these ugly rusted bent-up and gagging old cans reminded me of you! Happy Birthday!!!" BUT! I know that's not what you meant, and it's not what I meant, so I'll move on. I know why you chose this, and Andrea's gallery is filled with art she makes from objects of the day, things she finds beauty in, and transforms with her postwork; objects that others walk past but which she finds the song in; and her mix, as you say, of beauty with frugal and practical objects. But also the image is a wonderful abstract, with terrific patterns across each can-side, and lots of variation on a theme---the theme here being an orange-red-rust theme, with greens thrown in. You have a way, in minimal subjects like this (meaning that it's mainly about one object), of finding the exclamation mark in the midst of it all: Here, it's in the shadow cast by that protruding sheet. That shadow is the defining 'moment' in this shot, and it's terrific. You brought out the deep blacks beautifully. Your eye was dead-on in knowing where to crop, what to capture, and how to draw forth the shadows and textures, etc. For those reasons it suits Andrea too. Terrific piece Tara. A terrific bday gift for Andrea. And Happy Birthday, Andrea (the THIRD person who'll never see this.) A lush red-rust symphony of a shot.