wax and wine glass

a negative image, of course. the original is orange and dark--warm and mysterious. but for cool cool elegance, this works better. virtually antiseptic. though equally evocative, i think. I'll post the original with another candle and wine glass on another post.

even if i had a better camera and this photo were crisper and less speckled, you would never blow this up as a poster and hang it. it would be too depressing to look at after a while. it's cold and sad, i think. pretty but sad.

why is that--why is it sad? i think because any world in which this would be a real world (visually non-manipulated) image would have to be so sterile it would be devoid of the human heart. reason but not love could operate in this world, and therefore reason would work poorly, too, for it would have so little to puzzle through.

boy, i really regret making this photo.