The patterns created by the stairs and shadows intrigued me, as did the contrast between the parallels of light and dark, on the right, and the smooth, evenly lit surface on the left. I like the photograph I made that summer afternoon, I like it because it reminds me of the afternoon wandering the gardens, […]
Stairs always promise something, escape, adventure, death, the unknown. What waits just out of sight past that last step? What lurks below in the gloom that devours the stairs? Moqui steps scratched into soft sandstone, the ruins of some steps leading to a long-gone building, or modernist stairs in a city museum. Stairs are always […]
Stairways lure you to climb them, to see what might be stashed or hidden at the top (or the bottom). The brave explorer climbs slowly, stairs creaking under the weight of each footstep, hoping to find something, anything. Stairways also frighten. The threat of some monster lurking in the attic (or the basement).