Old Sugar copper pot with crack - Belmont Estate - Grenada

Tony,

  Wonderful creative abstract with great processing.  I see do many things in this image, like a whale smiling on the lower right.  Take care, Patsy

I see Elvis... Mike

Dear Tony, this pot ... has already cooked a lot of sugar to make sweet candy :) The copper used in cookware is an art, because some utensils are beautifully embossed, and full of brightness, thanks to rubbing.

The color of rust is an explosion of lights for the senses.

Our sight looks for known shapes, something that identifies what we are looking at... maybe those black spots were parts that touched directly heat or flames. The green color of the crack contrasts wonderfully and its linearity to be covered with the view, is a bonus.

In short, this image reminds me that in the end "all ends just giving up", pots breaking and the hardest rock with a single drop, splitting.

 

Are cracks good to occur?... they are "good", physically or spiritually. A reminder that nothing is eternal, everything passes by.

Very good texture, congrats! Laura.

Well seen and done!

There is a random kind of pattern that sets the eye searching for some kind of visual recognition that fact that there is none does not at all detract from the aesthetic appeal, in fact quite the reverse!

Very well done Tony!

 

Alf

Very nice , Tony, noticing the the abstract possibilities in the surface of this copper pot. And a very interesting and colorful abstract composition it is. Are those little plants growing out of the cracks?

I can see the orange whale also. I think I see a stealth bomber and a huge gun pointed at it.

Thanks for stopping by.

Elvis "scene" on the copper moon!

I hope you are serious (*_*).  

Thanks. Your comment is appreciated,

I think you have described this aptly. The only order I felt that I could bring to this was to try and apply the rule of thirds based on where the crack is positioned.  Thank you for visiting and commenting.

 

Thanks.  I took hundreds of images on my winter break in Grenada but I still looking through them to which ones I might share here.  When sugar was king like oil a few years ago,  these copper pots measuring 4 feet in diameter were a critical part of processing the sugar cane juice. I will describe the process more when I respond to Laura,

From the middle and viewing to the left, those are plants growing there. From the middle and viewing to the right, that is grass below the copper pot. I felt that the green was an important visual contrast among all the reds and oranges.

 

At the mill, the sugar cane was crushed between iron rollers powered by water, wind or cattle. The cane juice would flow into vats where it would be clarified, skimmed, and then ladled into successively smaller copper pots where the heated juice eventually turned to a thick syrup. The syrup was brought to the point of crystallization, cooled, then packed into hogsheads or clay pots where it crystallized into muscovado, or brown sugar.

 

The substance that dripped out of these containers was molasses, which could be sold as a cheap sweetener, fed to slaves and livestock, or mixed with the skimmings from the first boiling to produce rum (which probably got its name from the Latin saccarhum, meaning sugar).

Rum was the most profitable by-product of the sugar process and became a major export item in its own right. The Muscovado sugar could be sold for further refining in England, or refined on the plantation. But refined sugar commanded the highest price. Naturally, it took much longer to produce - usually four months, as the sugar had to remain sealed in a clay pot until the molasses had been thoroughly dissolved out of the sugar through moisture in the clay.

 

A couple of years ago I was on a tour in Costa Rica high in the mountains and I observed the entire process from sugar cane stalks to brown sugar in about 45 minutes. I sampled that brown sugar and what a flavor!!

Dear Laura,

 

The way you describe and critique my image, I must kneel and expect you to take your pen,  tap me on my shoulder and through faith, I will learn and be inspired to write like you do. You have described the physicality of the image using words like 'rubbing', 'shiny', "shapes' 'cracks' 'explosion' which elevates my pleasure to new levels.

 

Then you get into the metaphysical and whether cracks are good physically or spiritually.

 

 Someone once said that life is like a tea bag since you need to get into hot water to get the full essence. The part I don't like is when all the tea is gone and the tea bag is discarded.  This is good for the human species but not good for the individual. I saw my younger sister die from pancreatic cancer long before she saw her daughter get married and have children. She desperately wanted to live but that would not be the case.

 

So do we follow Jean-Paul Satre's existentialism  where there is no tomorrow or do we follow a religious faith where we can expect a tomorrow???

 

Thank you again for everything you have written and I am pleased that you like this image

 

 

Like a topographical map from above. Really good work here, Tony.

Thank you Emmanuel.

Dear Tony, thank you for explaining in detail the sugar process, it should be very interesting to see the way they proceed in situ.

I think you write, interpret and describe splendidly. You can not imagine the pleasure when reading your comments in a language that flows from you, naturally, is like music to my ears. Taking into account that is difficult to interpret what people write and therefore to read and understand the true intent and meaning of the writer and you perceive perfectly the different levels of interpretation.

Of course, it attracts me more a religious faith or some kind of personal faith, that makes me believe that we will all be together again.

There is a phrase full of comfort of an Argentine songwriter, Facundo Cabral, which says: "You lost nobody; the one who died is just going ahead, because we all are going there. Besides this, the best of him/her, his/her love, is still in your heart. "

 

Thanks for all, I'm learning very much when I read here, not only I can dust off and refresh a language for me, not used in my day to day, but  also I fill my head and willingness with pure happiness.

 

If it makes you happy, I declare you knight and my best wish for you is: "always write your words with the same fluidity, either fast or dense, as your thoughts do flow; they should go together and be a true reflection or mirrow of each other ".

My accolade to confer your knighthood, including the tapping of my pen on your shoulders and an embrance about your neck, is the following one:

- "Rise, sir ... with these touches of my pen on your shoulder, I declare you Knight of the Green Pen"

 

A hug!, Laura.

I simply cannot compete with your response, so I take a back seat and undeservedly accept your knighthood.  

Well designed by time and you.  Excellent work, Tony.

Thanks.

Cheers

 

PDE

Great colour and abstract look.