Impromptu Still Life

Posted by Russ Devan (New Hanover, United States) on 11 June 2008 in Miscellaneous and Portfolio.

This is a still life that I kind of shot on the fly this past Sunday evening after we finished dinner. I noticed a few rays of the setting sun were peaking through the kitchen window at an oblique angle (the kitchen window faces due north) and illuminating a small area of the kitchen countertop with a warm reddish glow near where we keep a few miscellaneous kitchen items. Inspired, I grabbed the camera and snapped a few still lifes of the warmly lit items. The decoration on the wall is a grape vine stencil that my wife had painted over the marbled paint when she redecorated the kitchen a few years ago (the stencil matches the pattern on our china and kitchenware, in case you didn't notice). I found it interesting that her grandfather, who was born in Italy, grew his own grapes and made his own wine, so I wonder if that influenced her choice of kitchen motif. Almost all of the rooms in our home have a decorative stencil that she painted on the walls to give it her personalized touch. After the grapevine stencil, my favorite are the butterflies that are painted randomly on the walls and ceiling of our daughter's bedroom.

"The Master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both."
- Zen Buddhist Text

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