On a dusty warehouse shelf sits a souvenir of a pre-digital age: a child’s diorama in a cardboard box with a glass front.
Silent City of Night (2012). Digital collage created & copyright © by Eric Edelman. All rights reserved.
Behind the glass, and in front of a curved, night-blue paper sky in which a tinfoil moon rises, someone has placed buildings cut from an old postcard; caught in the act of soaring among the buildings, papier-mâché birds with dyed feathers hang motionless on invisible threads.
A night city of silence. All is motionless, except when footsteps outside set the birds trembling.
(All artwork, descriptions, & other text created & copyright © by Eric Edelman. All rights reserved.)
Fantastic and it’s got like a 3D feel to it
Have a good rest of week
Thank you, Steve! And thanks especially for telling me about the 3D look; I was aiming to convey that, and I’m glad it came across.
This has a magical feel to it. I love the birds and how the moon is actually the earth.
Paula
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Thanks very much, Paula! I’m glad that you like the birds and the moon so much. They were fun to work on.
Nice Artwork!
Thanks for your visit and your kind comment. Happy WW!
Happy WW!
POSH
Thanks! Hope you have a happy WW, too!
Happy WW!
Happy WW to you, too, Lisa!
Very nice!
Thanks very much for your kind comment!
This is one of my favorites of the ones I have seen of yours. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much for your kind comment, Rhonda! I’m glad you like it.
Happy WW!
Thanks–hope you have a great WW also!
View from the future moon perhaps with the globe shining orb of earth hanging over its highrise city.
Thanks for your comment! Yes, perhaps it is; on the other hand, it might well be a view from the Earth in one of the parallel universes physics now postulates: an Earth whose satellite is yet another Earth. There are infinitely many possibilities…
Thank-you for hosting again – Happy Wordless Wednesday
“Wordless Wednesday: Remember The Girl Named Iris?”
http://www.thegipsyintheparlour.com/2012/05/wordless-wednesday-remember-girl-named.html
You’re very welcome. Thank you for visiting!
When I first looked at it, I thought you had your interpretation of the super moon – but I looked at it again, and noticed the continents!
Happy WW!
~EdT.
Thanks! And Happy WW to you as well. I wanted to give a twist to the cliché of a full moon-rise, and this old engraving of the Earth’s “land hemisphere” seemed to fill the bill.
Very impressive!
Thank you, Colleen!
Lovely image
Thanks, Claire! I appreciate your kind words.
lovely birds… visiting from WW:
Thank you for visiting and for your comment!
pretty birds…. happy WW.
Thanks very much! Have a great WW.
Love the moon in this one! So nice and bright- similar to all those super moon pics people had a couple weeks ago. Very neat.
Thanks so much for your kind comments! I didn’t get to see most of those super moon posts, unfortunately.
I enjoyed this image so much – especially the moon – brought me a smile
Thank you, Kate. I really appreciate your kind comment, & I’m very glad that you enjoyed the moon image (it was a pleasure to work on).
Absolutely fabulous! Your image reminds me of some included in an exhibit, “An Orchestrated Vision: The Theater of Contemporary Photography” at the St Louis Museum of Art. Excellent.
Thank you so much, Aerie-el! I appreciate your kind words. And thank you for letting me know about the exhibition in St. Louis; my curiosity is piqued!
Beautifully done.
Thanks very much! Have a happy WW.
What a great splash of color in the city!
Thanks very much, Jessica! Glad you like it.
like all your pictures, when I saw this one I said wow… always so beautiful and unique!
Thank you so much, Hilary! The feeling’s mutual: I like all of yours as well. Hope you had a great WW!