Month: February 2021

I got some broken phone parts from the local Fix It shop down the road. As I looked at the sad pile of electronics, never again to be electrified, one screen stood out to me.

It was closer to a whole screen when I began, but it was darker than I wanted due to the LCD material on the back. A material which, might I add is incredibly difficult to remove. In trying to remove the material glued to the back of the glass, I damaged the broken screen more than when I originally got it. But in so doing I had this idea for a picture. If you have ever gotten really close to a screen or monitor you may have noticed that each pixel is made up of a red green and blue pixel. With the higher resolution screens of today they may not look like an open carton of Neapolitan ice cream, but if you had an old CRT TV that you got really close to, you know what I’m talking about. And thinking about that array of red, green and blue, I thought if you break a bottle whatever is inside comes leaking out, so if you break a screen, then all the red, green, and blue should leak out the bottom.

I set to work suspending the screen in the air and then proceeded to pour paint on the back and photograph it as is dripped off the bottom. This is one of the shots that I think was more successful at showing what I was after. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

It seems that 2021 has started off the way 2020 ended. After a two week isolation after a covid exposure, the project has fallen two weeks behind. Fortunately, it’s early in the year and I have some time to make it up.

The picture needs a little touch up, but it seemed more important to get this posted and start working on the next picture, so here it is, in need of just a little touch up in the future.

It started with a trip to the office supply store, which just happens to be next to Zurchers. After picking up some ink for the printer, I went to the manager of the party store with an odd request. Sometimes it is difficult to come up with a creative idea for a photograph. It is always hard to ask someone if you can have their garbage. But she was kind enough to give me a bunch of mylar balloons that I could work with.

I made some fish and a mylar aquarium, I stuck butterflies to the apricot tree and finally decided on the picture above — a row of butterflies on a painted stick.