April 29, 2005

Red Hand and Pink Petals

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"I will be the gladdest thing under the sun. I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one." -edna st. vincent millay, "afternoon on a hill"

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." -anaïs nin

Photographed along the path to the lake while taking a walk during lunch on Thursday.

Posted by Will Burnham on Fri Apr 29, 2005 | Comment on this entry
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You do think differently.don't you????
So..let me get this right....you always carry a red hand around with you???????
Be careful. In some parts of the world......it has a whole different meaning........great shot and idea.

Posted by: Tom on April 29, 2005 08:48 AM

Hi Tom, The red hand is a found object. It was laying on the side of the path in the grass and petals. I did keep it however and it may appear again in future photos. Right now it is taped to my office wall next to my monitor.
Peace,
--Will

Posted by: Will Burnham on April 29, 2005 10:29 AM

I thought it ment there are Orcs nearby...

/I gotta get out more

Posted by: mm on April 29, 2005 11:41 AM

This picture speaks to me in many different ways due to the "Red Hand" print so vividly brought to life by the notorious south American gang know simply as "Banditious un RedaHandos" (translation is "The Evil Band of Stick Wheedling Bandits that Viciously Paint Peoples Hands Red Against their Will") that I heard about in during my time in Mexico, yet I digress; this piece of art cries to me of the dichotomy of the environment of modern man (represented by the E.B.S.W.B.V.P.P.H.R.A.W paper) and the lovely yet wilted flowers so prominently displaying their precious purple petals as if crying out to man to stop raping the world for gas and oil and to drive battery powered cars and love one another with no shame for the fig leaves dancing around ones loin area whist the "Modern Man/Red Hand" picture engulfs my soul in a fiery torrent of pain and suffering brought about by the mighty ships of the EXXON fleet plying too and fro with wanton disregard of the continuing plight of the Northern Witichaw Kansas blue-bellied termite that is so close to extinction.

Posted by: Davved on April 29, 2005 12:33 PM

GREAT find! hey, daveed - you coulda been an English major!

Posted by: Lynn on May 2, 2005 11:15 PM