Metal emerges as a weathered canvas, its bold hues standing up to time's touch, in this abstract macro photograph titled Crossroads.
 


Crossroads © 2021 Look Studio
 


Taken from an old Shell gasoline station sign, I focused my lense on a tiny area where a rusty horizontal indentation and a vertical ridged seam intersect. This, to me, stood out as a visual and figurative crossroad, where rust represents the trials we traverse through life, and the seam represents the changes, adjustments, and turns we take along the way to secure the course.
 
The power of metal as an artistic influence was fueled by an exhibit of John Chamberlain’s work that I saw at the Guggenheim in New York many years ago.  His larger-than-life sculpture crafted from car metal and capsulized into provoking works of art were impactful in magnitude and strength.  For more about his influence, please visit my blog, New Transformations in the Abstract.




Crossroads works well in today’s contemporary home where metal, wood, glass, and concrete support, in form and function, the pace of today’s lifestyle with the ability to reflect on its purpose.
 
Wishing you a vivacious summer!