Found Still Life

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I went with some friends for breakfast at the excellent Tasty Table in Ossining, NY. While I was there I needed to use the rest room and in there I came across this lovely little cabinet with a number of little curios in it. So I took a picture.

It wasn’t until I got back and looked at it on the computer that I noticed that it wasn’t a cabinet at all, but rather a nice Trompe l’oeil painting. For anyone who may not be familiar with this term it’s French for “to deceive the eye”, an art historical tradition in which the artist fools us into thinking we’re looking at the real thing. Well it certainly fooled me.

Taken with a Fuji X-E3 and Fuji XF 35mm f1.4 R

Lunch in Yonkers, NY – A Couple of Murals

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Yonkers seems to have a lot of murals. Here are just two of them.

Above: Detail of a mural by Dutch artist, Eelco van den Berg overlooks Mill Street Courtyard in downtown Yonkers. The public space was designed around a newly recovered portion of the Saw Mill River.

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A contemporary wall mural by street artist Fumero on the side of the Herald Statesman building in Yonkers, New York.

Taken with a Fuji X-E3 and Fuji XC 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS II

Around the Neighborhood – Stained glass at Scarborough Station

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On one of my trips into New York City I noticed these stained glass windows on the platform. I’d spotted them before, but I don’t think I ever took a picture of them.

“In 2010, Metro-North began a program called Arts for Transit. As part of the program, an art installation was created for the station. The work, titled Untitled with Sky, comprises six stained glass windows and twelve seats covered in mosaic tiles. Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia worked with Willet Hauser Architectural Glass to create the installations. The windows were originally intended for the overpass, where they were installed for a short time. Around 2011, the windows were moved to the southbound platform.” (Wikipedia).

As you’ll see from the above there are six of them. I guess I must have missed two.

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Taken with a Fuji X-E3 and Fuji XF 55-200mm f3.5-4.8 R LM OIS