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23-FEB-2007

Sculpture, Darwin, California, 2007

Darwin is a borderline ghost town just outside of Death Valley National Park’s western entrance. In the 1870s, more than 3,000 silver miners lived here. Today, its population is less than 50. I was amazed to see this classical sculpture standing in the deeply shadowed window of a time worn house. The sculpture seems both out of place and out of time – an incongruous sight in a place remembered mainly for its history of gunfights and fires. The figure seems to be wondering how he wound up in a place such as this.

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Phil Douglis04-Apr-2007 07:16
That is the ultimate gift of expressive photography, Iris. Each of us, as photographer, will see this subject differently and express ourselves accordingly, just as each viewer will read our pictures differently, as well. The communication possibilities are infinite.
Iris Maybloom (irislm)04-Apr-2007 00:44
It's interesting how each one of us had such a different take on this image, from Tim's close-up of the window and sculpture to Carol's emphasis on the building in which this window was located (perhaps the most incongruous of all the images). Yours and mine fall between the two extremes. All together they present an interesting montage of this very incongruous image.
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