Spoons

I noticed these spoons soaking in the greasy water of a frying pan after last

night's dinner. I really must do the dishes right away.

You're ability to see imagery in life's tedium is unmatched.  This is artistically rendered and ready for presentation in a series, I would think.  The more practical, me usually, might see what looks like a florescent fixture and soup for dinner ;-)... Mike  

"It could be a spoonful of coffee

It could be a spoonful of tea

But one little spoon of your precious love

Is good enough for me"  Howlin' Wolf

Did taking the photo clean the dishes? If that works, would make my camera a whole lot more useful:)

I think of the utensils dancing in Cinderella. 

OK, enough blues . . .   I get it, Jack.  You're trying to teach us a new version of "pick up sticks."

What lovely tones in this homey subject. If you had told me Josef Sudek had shot this long ago I would have believed you. I love the look of some of the earlier photographers and this captures that feeling wonderfully. 

I don't know why this image makes me think of a drug overdose. 

Does anyone else see the Virgin Mary in there?

--Lannie

What you can do, with a couple of spoons! Excellent composition, and an interesting b&w  abstraction.

Cheers.

Bela

Jack,

This is excellent composition. The placement of the spoons simulates human characters, as if a few souls are entangled in a womb like environment. My only critic would be the reflection of the fluorescent light which seems like a distraction.

Dear Jack: Alway a puzzle, a conundrum, an unresolved equation....Your image is "delightfuly difficult", a Rubik's cube. How to analyze it? Photographically? Aesthetically? Expressionistically? Three (four?) spoons?? No, it cannot be, there has to be more.... and there is! Especially knowing where the image stems from, i.e. YOUR view, YOUR camera, YOUR lens, YOUR imagination. This stems from Jack, fully and completely, an enigma, a well tanned (as quality rawhide) artist, a master if his trade. And the bright dash of light?... I give up Jack....I rather sit back, sip my single malt and keep wondering on a possible solution to this hoodwink.

Best of the best.

Dg

As a thumbnail, it's hard to decipher, but somehow it raised the impression to me of large columns falling.

And now I see the image a bit better, I still am left with the idea that popped up in my head seeing the thumbnail. How the mighty are falling. Not sure why, but a sense of disintegration, of thumbling over one another remains.

Or to quote from the movie the Matrix: "there is no spoon".