Recycling self portrait. A study in isolation, desperation, frustration, and anger. Photo by Nathan Craig.
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Empty Tank Not Bailed Out
CTI Bank's logo is emblazoned on a stagnant race car that has been positioned to decorate a theme restaurant that is now closed and abandoned. Photo by Nathan Craig.
Empty Tank Driven to Failure
Abandoned drive through window, part of the empty tank series. Photo by Nathan Craig
(Un/Dis/De)Construct(ion/ed)
Studies in light and color from the edge of the economic apocalypse. Photos by Nathan Craig
Lawless Savages
Law establishes order and elevates the "civilized man" from the chaotic depths of savagery. Here a Penn State owned university vehicle barbarically refuses to yield to pedestrians that are standing at a cross walk that is marked by two university signs. Photos by Nathan Craig.
Witness pedestrian subalterity as savage drivers hegemonize the streets by ignoring posted rules of the road on the Penn State Campus.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Washing and Polishing the Paws
Among many cultures, monumental architecture that houses potent material objects requires regular ritual cleansing. Materialized totemic symbols in particular may be the focus of cyclic renewal rituals. Here at the elevated entryway to the Palmer Museum, we see the biannual washing and polishing of the paws which is an act performed in preparation for pilgrims. Here two of the keepers of the shrine are pictured washing the paws to ready the museum for graduation and the many visitors who come to participate in this ceremony of intellectual transformation. The paws are doused with libations of purifying water and polished with bowling wax in order to achieve a lustrous shine. The paws are also washed in the Fall when high school students are visiting campus. Photos by Nathan Craig.
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