SONIA MELNIKOVA FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY
About this series:
The BOTTLED PAST series consists of still life photographic images taken in Randsburg, a former mining town in the Mojave Desert in California; Bodie, a ghost town in California; and Elizabethtown, a ghost town in New Mexico. Sometimes it feels as if we have no past. Old buildings are torn down instead of being restored, mines and railroads are left forlornly to deteriorate, and family albums are sold at garage sales. Having come from a country where nothing less old than two hundred years was considered old enough, I feel nostalgic for the past of my new country, which had been gone long before I arrived. Together with the GHOST TOWNS, GARAGE SALE, and RUSTY THINGS series, BOTTLED PAST is a reflection on discarded things of the past whose value is not necessarily in the preciousness of the material, practical usefulness, or conventional attractiveness but in a mystery they contain or the priceless memories they evoke.
Available as archival prints on acid-free fine-art rag-textured paper in two standard sizes: 11"x14" image (16"x20" matted, framed or not framed), and 16"x20" image (framed without a mat).
The BOTTLED PAST series consists of digital high-resolution
realistic still life photographs of old bottles and oil lamps found in
ghost towns, flea markets, garage sales, and antique and junk stores
Keywords: artworks, digital photography, high resolution, giclée
prints, archival, realistic, still life, nostalgia, past, ghost towns,
Randsburg, Bodie, Mojave Desert, California, Elizabethtown, New
Mexico, old bottles, glass, found objects, dark
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