Old Spades - b / w
by VIVA Anderson
Title
Old Spades - b / w
Artist
VIVA Anderson
Medium
Photograph - Garden Tools Photography
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contest: BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY.......24/10/23.............................
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Old Spades,still-life, b-w photography, by VIVA Anderson.“Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.” ― Suzy Kassem. Ⓒ.
In my Photography collection.
This is my capture of the trusty garden spades,as stored/hanging inside the garden shed,awaiting their moment to dig,plant, give hope.Their age is testimony of a life well spent furthering the tending of the earth. These I found in the shed at the family farm,
in "country New South Wales' near YOUNG, farming district.
I AM NOT OLD........
I am not old…she said.
I am rare.
I am the standing ovation
At the end of the play.
I am the retrospective
Of my life as art.
I am the hours
Connected like dots
Into good sense.
I am the fullness
Of existing.
You think I am waiting to die…
But I am waiting to be found.
I am a treasure.
I am a map.
And these wrinkles are
Imprints of my journey.
Ask me anything.
- Samantha Reynolds Ⓒ.
"All my hurts, my garden spade can heal." RW Emerson
"How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence". -Benjamin Disraeli
"The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land". -Abraham Lincoln
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Comments (51)
Will Borden
Hi VIVA~~I really like your monochrome image of the old (well-used) garden spades! Just imagine all of the many hours of work they have seen- well not literally, and the many hours of interesting conversations that may have swirled around them when being used as you said, "Furthering the tending of the earth." Love this and sending my Very Best for each day going forward! Sincerely, Will. F&L
VIVA Anderson replied:
Dear Will, thank you from my 'artist's' heart. I so appreciated your so thoughtful response to this "Furthering the tending of the earth" and your love of this affirms my hopes here. I wish you well, fulfillment, peace,:)🙏VIVA::with deepest gratitude to you, my Friend.
VIVA Anderson
Thanks, Douglas. I truly appreciate your insight and sharing your expertise about this, and am honoured by your thoughts, :))))) VIVA🙏
Douglas Taylor
The image is striking, but the description is wonderful, VIVA! it must be read to understand the photography as art!
James Metcalf
Very nice VIVA. I would have called it “I AM NOT OLD”. (;>)
VIVA Anderson replied:
Thanks kindly , James, and yes: that Title works for sure, andbut, I did quote the poem for you and thanks for reading it: I am still waiting to be found,! , by whom? IDNKnow!!!, :)VIVA, with gratitude as always,
VIVA Anderson replied:
p.s.,the Author, Samantha Reynolds recently passed on....and many tributes were posted to her, being a long-time, wellknow poet. :)
VIVA Anderson
Old Spades,still-life, b-w photography, by VIVA Anderson.“Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.” ― Suzy Kassem.
Sharon Williams Eng
Anyone else would have walked right past without a second glance. Not you. You have a way to see beyond the mundane.
VIVA Anderson
Cyril, thank you very much for the honoured Feature in The Monotone Photography group, VIVA 🙏
Cyril Jayant
Congratulations! your fantastic art work has been selected as featured on our Homepage of “The Monochrome Photography Group”. Thank you for adding this selected work in the discussion thread for Archive purposes under Featured thread. ( using “Embed” link by copy paste on your page ) Cheers!!! —Cyril
Ken Walker
Take A Bow! Well deserved.
VIVA Anderson replied:
Thank you kindly, Ken. I'm so proud of your enthusiastic support, for my work!!!, :)VIVA🙏
Ken Walker
You continue to amaze me - taking the ordinary - THE MASTER of BW strikes again! Just stunning.
James Metcalf
I am struck by how striking this photo is and how much it takes on an abstract composition. Something old made new again! Bravo VIVA!
TdpArts Gallery Terrance DePietro
"...I am rare. / I am the standing ovation..." - each different from the next, we few who band together, yet have significance that we represent 'tools in a shed' still ready to preform! 'Old spades', perhaps. But certainly vibrant! Another image that testifies to the 'functioning' of wisdom... in any time. 'I AM NOT OLD' either! -tdp
VIVA Anderson replied:
Terrance, I am so touched by YOUR thoughts, response, simpatico! WE will NEVER be OLD ! and WE , who are significant TO EACHOTHER!......I admire your always erudite , thoughtful responses , especially!! THANK you, brother in ART !..........VIVA
PAUL COCO
Taken as a whole, image and notes, this is awe inspiring. And when so well tended and renewed, this garden will bring forth even greater beauty than imagined. Bravo, VIVA!
VIVA Anderson
Jor Cop Images, Thank you so much, especially, for Favoriting my Old Spades photo, VIVA
VIVA Anderson
Thank you, dear Madalena, for the feature in our Women Painters group... VIVA
VIVA Anderson replied:
Am sorry, dear Mada, this is a photo, so I removed it with thanks anyway for the feature...VIVA
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