Hey fellow Steemers!
The recent SteemitPhotoChallenge experience had me looking back through my portfolio of both published and unpublished works, and doing so really brought home to me how many overlooked images are lurking sadly like unappreciated little wallflowers whilst my more popular creations hog the limelight...!
Over the next couple of weeks I'm going to spotlight some of my more neglected works, both here and elsewhere. I'm going to start with images and paintings I've never sold a copy (or the original) of, despite having put them out there in the public domain...
Some of these are serious personal favourites of mine, and it can't be right that they just don't get the attention I feel they deserve, poor neglected things ;)
I'm hoping to attract a little love for them, so here we go - 'Jay's Neglected Favourites' #1:
'Fading Away' by Jay Taylor​ - when minimalism gets busy...
Photo - 'Fading Away' by Jay Taylor
Photo - 'Fading Away' by Jay Taylor - Detail Close-up #1
Photo - 'Fading Away' by Jay Taylor - Detail Close-up #2
I absolutely love this image - it blows me away me every time I look at it, and I am amazed that it's never sold on any of the huge range of products it can be printed onto at redbubble.com - some of them just look fricking awesome to me! I don't know whether it's just too subtle for some peoples' tastes, but the amount of detail and incredible shapes in this 'accidental artwork' just blow me away. Just old whitewash fading off black-painted chipboard, with extra patterning provided by ivy growth which had died back at some point to leave its marks behind as an integral part of this wonder of entropy... The incredibly subtle colour shifts just amaze me - the most gorgeous blues and oranges are hiding in this at-first-glance simply 'black and white' image...I deliberately photographed it at an angle, as I wanted the sharpness at the centre to fade into softness at the top and bottom of the frame...It just adds an extra dimension to the 'fading' effect for me...And on that final note, I can also see many ghost-like faces in the patterns - do you see them too?
Hopefully someone out there will enjoy this one as much as I do - I love it even more now than I did the day I spotted and photographed it. Enjoy, fellow Steemers!
With love,
Jay
