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The image I used for this piece, and that sparked the idea, is one of a series of photos I took several years ago of a mannequin (my Karaoke Muse, as I called her). She used to stand outside of a tavern near town, on top of a signpost that announced their karaoke nights. She was beautiful in a ghostly, melancholy way, dressed in yellow lace and taffeta, weather-torn and tattered. She had cobwebs covering her face and hair and the most forlorn expression in her glass eyes...all too real. She was stolen a couple of months after my photos were taken, so she is indeed now a ghost of the past.
I always wondered, as I drove by, what she saw with those eyes. She always gave me the impression of seeng something quite beyond what lay in front of her, of looking into an inner world of her own, one of memory and longing.

So I have taken that thought and expanded upon it...an aging muse peering through the looking glass of the past at the memories of her golden and tarnished youth.

Image used for this piece:

Detail and Concept shots:

Featured by:

Field of memories

Thank you.

Assemblage (18"x11"x5 1/2"); mixed media.
The finished case has a glass panel inserted behind the window opening.

All images in my gallery are created with original photography by yours truly. Photography and final images are copyrighted and may not be used in any form without my written permission. Thank you.

Description
The image I used for this piece, and that sparked the idea, is one of a series of photos I took several years ago of a mannequin (my Karaoke Muse, as I called her). She used to stand outside of a tavern near town, on top of a signpost that announced their karaoke nights. She was beautiful in a ghostly, melancholy way, dressed in yellow lace and taffeta, weather-torn and tattered. She had cobwebs covering her face and hair and the most forlorn expression in her glass eyes...all too real. She was stolen a couple of months after my photos were taken, so she is indeed now a ghost of the past.
I always wondered, as I drove by, what she saw with those eyes. She always gave me the impression of seeng something quite beyond what lay in front of her, of looking into an inner world of her own, one of memory and longing.

So I have taken that thought and expanded upon it...an aging muse peering through the looking glass of the past at the memories of her golden and tarnished youth.

Image used for this piece:

Detail and Concept shots:

Featured by:

Field of memories

Thank you.

Assemblage (18"x11"x5 1/2"); mixed media.
The finished case has a glass panel inserted behind the window opening.

All images in my gallery are created with original photography by yours truly. Photography and final images are copyrighted and may not be used in any form without my written permission. Thank you.