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The Junk That 8 K-Town (View-Master Haiku Series 1, 2 & 3), Brenton M. Rossow
The Junk That 8 K-Town (View-Master Haiku Series 1, 2 & 3), Brenton M. Rossow
Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language
THE JUNK THAT 8 K-TOWN (View-Master Haiku Series 1, 2 & 3)
My first session taking photos of bush junk near the K-Town train station led to an addiction. I started to see things within images that aroused deeper contemplation. The miniature Eiffel Tower within one landscape seemed to expertly align with a gasping car belly that paid homage to Peter Dam’s The Dogs That 7 Sparrows.
Absent past owners became unconscious artists. Objects in their adopted environments became creatures with lives beyond previous incarnations. I saw things as representations, serendipitous alignments, but more importantly, a culture addicted to …