Last Ones Standing
The Vanishing Scarecrows of Eastern Europe
de A. E. Fournet
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The scarecrows are usually created by the older generation of women, known affectionately as babicka (grandmother). As this generation of women aged and died the craft of scarecrow making began to disappear. The older style scarecrows are now replaced with simple constructions of sticks, twine and bottles, sadly lacking the creativity and quirky anthropomorphic characteristics. I now travel further and further east to less populated and accessible areas to find traditional scarecrows. In these remote villages time flows a little slower. Farm work is still done by hand, horse drawn carts transport hay and crops, and the lifestyle reflects the tradition of previous generations. The scarecrows are representatives of the faded and fading places, overlooked customs, and crafts that tenuously adhere in the swiftly changing Mittle Europan cultural identity.
Like the Zen hermit, scarecrows stay alone in nature and observe and contemplate the cycle of life in nature from bloom to wither. They are the essence of wabi-sabi. Their clothes become tattered, their stuffed heads fall apart, but they become more interesting through their transformation. They accept their inevitable fates. By fall harvest they are spent and ruined by the elements. They will be deconstructed and thrown out, or packed away for another incarnation for the next spring.
Características y detalles
- Categoría principal: Fotografía artística
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Características: Apaisado estándar, 25×20 cm
N.º de páginas: 108 - Fecha de publicación: jul. 06, 2009
- Palabras clave toy camera, diana camera, fine art photography, Diana Camera, Eastern Europe, landscape, Scarecrows
Acerca del creador
Annette Elizabeth Fournet has exhibited her photography at galleries and museums in France, Denmark, Greece, Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Kyrgyzstan, Great Britain and the United States. Her work is included in public and corporate collections such as the Bibliotheque Nationale, San Diego Museum of Photographic Art, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Prague House of Photography, Dum Fotografie Slovakia, Moravska Trebova Museum, Hungarian Multicultural Center, Mississippi Museum of Art, City of New Orleans Percent for Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana State Permanent Collection, Nielsen & Bainbridge Corporation, Jefferson Pilot Communications, and the Hyde Corporation In the U.S. her work is represented by the Joseph Bellows Gallery, San Diego, CA: Thomas Deans Gallery, Atlanta, GA: and AfterImage Gallery, Dallas, TX Annette Fournet lives in Memphis, Tennessee and in Prague, Czech Republic.