Mundane Art Contest

in #mundaneart7 years ago (edited)

As I was thinking about @kus-knees latest "mundane art" contest

https://steemit.com/photography/@kus-knee/the-old-gog-presents-the-mundane-as-art-no-3-damaged-asphalt-10-sbd-prize

and on my way home after dinner in the restaurant at the hotel next door.....
I stopped to take this night time shot of some damaged and discolored ashphalt.

I think that AshphaltArtIMG_20171117_2122268.jpgmy shoe at the bottom of the picture makes it especially endearing, don't you think? :-)

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By the way, here's the entrance to the hotel next door:
(yeah, yeah, I know it says "EXIT". Use your imagination!)

PerlaHotelIMG_20171115_1937563.jpg
Entering the Perla Hotel, Loutraki, Greece

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over and out
@onceuponatime

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This is a defeat for marketing.. your shoe becomes famous for your inspiration and not for its brand name! Enjoy your stay! :)

I know, eh. I should have photo shopped @onceuponatime onto the shoe!

you have an eye for the abstract !! ;) :D :D ... And the shoe ? Adds charm to the abstract :) ... nice and easy and mundane. And yes, the way you enter is the way you exit :). The circle of life completes itself on the same point :D :D ... I too am an art person. I paint, to be more specific :) .. Check out my blog if you have the time :)

I'll agree with you completely. The way in is the way out.

Go inside.

absolutely !!! :) Dust to Dust -the final destination :) ... Followed you :)

I would be surprised if you could find a asphalt without a damage, but art forgives everything.
Have a nice stay.
Thank you

"There is a crack, a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in."

Leonard Cohen

One of my Mantras in life!

Great one

I also agree With You @artgalleryraka

Your shoe is very photogenic and charismatic :)

My shoes take after me. In fact, I taught them just about everything they know :-)

that pictures made me think deep!!
Lol thanks for sharing!

I hope that you didn't think so deep that you were unable to come back up to the surface here with the rest of us :-)

Interesting concept, mundane art... the beauty found in unlikely spaces. Wasn't it Leonardo Da Vinci who taught his students how to see/draw better by observing cracks in the wall and the pattern in stains.

As a poet, I feel that the world is teeming with poems, waiting to be perceived and picked from the air =) @onceuponatime

Picking poems from the air! And from trees, and amidst the flowers of meadows too.
And I hope you will catch a big one in the sea!

Thank you, @onceuponatime ! If you've the time/interest, I hope you might enjoy these very short poems of mine, featured on NPR: https://steemit.com/poetry/@yahialababidi/my-poems-featured-on-npr-20171116t14218583z

Wow you are back in greece. Did you have the permit now to stay?

I have a temporary permit. I am expecting the permanent one within a week or two.

Nice So Then you Can settle and prepare next steps. Hoping for you that all goverments work quickly

Thank you.

" Hoping for you that all goverments work quickly"
by disappearing? LOL

lol, maybe start a project for that on utopian.io, lol Have a great weekend

@onceuponatime,
Artistic eye can be found in anywhere! You have proven that! Actually this is wonderful, and I can assure you have a High Quality camera lenses too! Hope to see more great photography from Greece!

Cheers~

Well, it is a cell phone camera, but yes, the Blackberry Priv has a very good lens.

@onceuponatime,
I thought it was a Cell Phone camera! But it's a high quality one!

Cheers~

watch your picture for a while, and then art is like that, everyone sees what their mind allows them to see, so ...

What did your mind allow you to see (but don't scare me lol)?

I did not expect you to ask, you would think I'm crazy, but I see the face as a kind of an Ogre seen in profile. I see perfectly the nose in the most pronounced crack, let me know if you can see it, it's a profile face haha (I'm ashamed)

Ogres, like beauty, are in the eye of the beholder :-)

the exit from the real world maybe

I left the real world long before this :-)

haha that thought did come to me a bit since you are now a Greece resident :-)