Thursday 7 April 2011

Heaven on earth?



Along time ago, in an era before "Google earth",  men travelled the country taking aerial photographs of rural farm properties and then sent unsolicited door to door salesmen to these properties to sell land owners these images. Often these pictures were hand tinted to make them look like paintings. Proud residents would display these "works of art" in their homes.

Yesterday I bought this wonderful "artwork" to display in my home. If you look close you can see a dog in the dog pen at the back of the yard and clean laundry on a clothes line blowing in the wind. What a lovely suburban home, complete with picture window, two car garage and of course in ground swimming pool. The house is plunked down in the middle of a sanitized country field flanked on one side by a clean slab of country highway. How idyllic! The surreal colours you see are because this black and white photograph has been hand tinted with Marshall watercolors. The only thing near natural about this picture is the real oak frame that embraces it.


-Martin

2 comments:

Lindsay Andrews said...

Pen knife is the way to go, but of all the knives I have this is one I don't. BPS here I come ......Lin

janeisgreen said...

At least they had a vegetable garden! Kinda looks like it's been sprayed, though.