Braettie
Junk Museum
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More fun with still life
This is a festive one for the holidays:
I rescued this poor creature from the cats, who were dragging it around their scratching post. I think they were finished with it anyway, as I'm sure they realized it contained no meat.
Here's a fun photomanipulation/collage I made out of props and backgrounds:
So I get some alone time
wrapped hand, aka time on my hands
I think I've finally got this thing down!
Signs, ehh?
Here's the sign for the bar downstairs from our apartment. I'm not a big drinker and I've only been there a few times, but it is definitely a dive. There are some eerie and sad stories connected with a couple of people who frequent this place. They have karaoke nights every Saturday, which we hear pretty clearly, especially during the summer.
Some things about my pictures and about me
- I don't have Photoshop. It's too expensive and probably wouldn't work well on my decrepit old IMac. I use a basic program called Graphic Converter.
- None of these are all that highly edited. I mess with the brightness/contrast, sometimes sharpen it a bit, and use some color saturation.
- My camera is a cheap Kodak model. I'm poor.
Braettie is my real name. Blame my parents, who are old hippies. I'm 33, female, and I live in Chicago with my husband and our two cats. Most of my pictures are taken in my house because I like working with still life and I'm a bit agoraphobic.
I started taking pictures in high school. The interest in still life started there, too. I delighted my teacher and frightened my classmates with images of painted mannequin heads flanked by old books and dead baby birds. It wasn't until much later that I saw David Lynch's photography and the fine work of Joel-Peter Witkin. when I realized I was hardly alone in my fascination with juxtaposition and decay. (Not that I would put myself in the same class with those incredibly talented and accomplished artists whose work makes mine look useless.)
None of my efforts are meant to shock anyone. I'm a person of extremes with a lot of curiosity and no fear of experimentation, so the pictures tend to reflect those traits.
Although there are pills and pill bottles in some of the photos, I don't use drugs recreationally, ever. What you see in the photos is legal and was legally obtained. The red pills in the Red And Silver Study are old antibiotics I neglected to take a couple of years ago. The pill bottles once contained blood pressure meds, antidepressants, mood stabilizers, and ADD meds, all of which were prescribed to me by a doctor. That's a lot of detail, but I just wanted to make this clear before anyone became unduly alarmed. Some of the still lifes involve dreams and escapism, but some reflect my own unadulterated reality.
New to this site, and here's one of my newest pictures
Most of my stuff is a series of still lifes. I'm a big fan of dolls, antiques, strange objects, and weird juxtapositions.
