Hand-me-downs
This photo relates to two others in my album 2020 Hindsight.
The two objects came from Vienna and for decades before and after I was born they lived in the vitrine seen in Finesse. They are now in my possession. The hand is shown in its intended function, as a weight to keep a book open.
The photo Sue was taken in the same room as Finesse was. I was convinced the hand seen there was this one, but clearly it is not! This is a right hand, the other is left and larger. That amazes me, and testifies to the unreliability of testimony. What the other hand was I cannot say.
The other small gilded object was added because it relates to photography. It is a locket in the form of a book, containing tiny faded portraits presumably more than 100 years old, and of whom no one can now say.
(The three dimensionality of this iPhone image amazes me. The shot was taken near a window to the right, and the shadows are very real. The dark patch on the page is due to a coloured illustration on the reverse side.)
Pardon my 60yo schoolboy Latin: Memento non mori sed picturas vitae -- attempting, "Remember not death, but pictures of life".
Hand-me-downs
This photo relates to two others in my album 2020 Hindsight.
The two objects came from Vienna and for decades before and after I was born they lived in the vitrine seen in Finesse. They are now in my possession. The hand is shown in its intended function, as a weight to keep a book open.
The photo Sue was taken in the same room as Finesse was. I was convinced the hand seen there was this one, but clearly it is not! This is a right hand, the other is left and larger. That amazes me, and testifies to the unreliability of testimony. What the other hand was I cannot say.
The other small gilded object was added because it relates to photography. It is a locket in the form of a book, containing tiny faded portraits presumably more than 100 years old, and of whom no one can now say.
(The three dimensionality of this iPhone image amazes me. The shot was taken near a window to the right, and the shadows are very real. The dark patch on the page is due to a coloured illustration on the reverse side.)
Pardon my 60yo schoolboy Latin: Memento non mori sed picturas vitae -- attempting, "Remember not death, but pictures of life".