March 2017 - THIS week's PICTURE

Ambroziak Patio, Knoxville, Tennessee: photo by Malcolm Aslett

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A sunny evening in June in Knoxville Tennessee. The left wall and roof line might seem peculiarly perpendicular and horizontal and your suspicions should be aroused. The original images were quite askew, of course, and I chose to have those two lines achieve a right angle of sorts. Not so much the windows that, within the red brick, were allowed to be narrow and wobbly, like the slit holes of ancient castles that always manage to look like design choices rather than a convenient solution for killing visitors. The image below instructs on the degree of adjustment. The top of the left roof is also artificially directed at the top right corner, flag-like. The bricks were put back to gether in jigsaw fashion.

Foliage and flagstones are similarly brought into line and the centripital nature of these lines bring the eye to rest on the red table, like a bullseye.Yes, the roof still feels squished because the eye is expecting to see something more than the edge of a gutter. Well, you can't have everything.

 

 

 

 

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