stux @stux@mstdn.social

Recent searches

Search options

Only available when logged in.

**Olli Pekka Rönn** @o · Jan 8, 2023 *

Jan 8, 2023 *

Olli Pekka Rönn @o

Next stop 2024.

#TimeWindow #StairSunday #SilentSunday #SurrealSunday
#photography #fotografie #BlackAndWhite #SchwarzWeiss #oronn

A black and white photograph showing us a wooden stairway swinging down to the next floor below in a 100 years old rural building. It’s not a spiral staircase, but it does a 180 on its way down, and we are facing the left descending half of the U-turn. We see evenly grey boarded walls on either side of the staircase.

The right side wall cuts a V-shape above the stairs for a solid divider with a handrail board and a column around which the stairway circles. The wall on the left has a tubular wooden handrail attached to it, and it swirls down along the stairway like a snake on its way downstairs. There is also a narrow rectangular window on that wall about half way down the stairs. The handrail descents across it, and the lower left corner of its white framework is curiously covered by the foot ledge of the stairway. Bright daylight from the window illuminates the halfway passage, but it dissolves into the deepening darkness of the stair turn.

This is the view that has now been mixed up before our eyes by rotating the image 90 degrees to the right. The right side wall has become a sloping floor leading down to the dark drop of the U-turn pocket, and the left wall now serves as a ceiling with a skylight window. Between these the now upright steps tilt and swirl towards the abyss. The rail snake passes us from above and dives past the skylight and down the gaping gorge at the end of the floor. This is now a surreal and disorientating view, and one dangerous route ahead of us.

Olli Pekka Rönn @o@masto.ai

Had to see how far I’d end up squeezing it, and this is how far.
The New Year’s original had its certain sad #SilentSunday vibe to it, so I’m connecting them by replying to that post.

A black and white photograph where a descending staircase has been mirrored horizontally, and that double image again mirrored likewise for two pairs of reflections. The double mirroring has then been mirrored vertically to form a pattern of eight adjoining images having a reflected counterpart beside it and likewise one below or above.

The original staircase image in the lower left corner has been taken in an old building, and it’s looking down a stairway leading to the floor below with a one-eighty to the right. The stairwell is lighted by a low single-pane window half way down on the left, but the light doesn’t reach the lower part of the well in sight, and the stairs swirl down into darkness lined by the shady stairwell wall facing us down there.

The perspective makes the upright wall boards on the right in the original pic spread out like a fan towards us, so the two mirrorings to the right and the one upwards form two frame dividing columns with stacked pointy arrowhead formations facing each other vertically. The doubled ceilings protrude from their sides. The tilted window halves form luminous arrowheads of their own in the middle, one pointing downwards in the lower third of the frame, the other mirrored to point up above it. The left wall out-fanning boards form a faint diamond between them.

An artificial looking geometric piece of image processing digital art, or maybe art in quotations. Not really my thing, but maybe an exception with some obsessive flavors.

#StairSunday #SurrealSunday #photography

Feb 26, 2023, 03:15 PM··Web

3boosts·19favorites

Drag & drop to upload

Recent searches

Search options

Administered by:

Server stats:

Recent searches

Search options

Administered by:

Server stats:

Back