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The Tomb of Icarus
06.09.08
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I wanted to post a pretty picture. The photos on Lumiere are many things, but they are always pretty. But after going through folders of photos of tulips and skylines and lakes, I knew I had to scrap pretty and settle for interesting (and creepy!).
Right outside my front door hangs this depressing globe, which since the start of summer has become a mass graveyard for flies. Their remains fall together against the light to create the impression of a sort of macabre eyeball.
To add ornament to the whole watchful-eye-of-death motif, I'll mention that spiders tend to camp out near the lamp as dinnertime approaches, knowing that as the light of the sky gets low, the artificial light will draw the flies. And in the series of photos this one is a part of, I have a few amateurish shots of a spider near the lamp, devouring an unfortunate victim.
Finally, I'll mention one detail that I wasn't skilled enough to capture well: In the upper-right corner of the photo, there's a small brown speck abutting the globe, a very slight disturbance in the halo around it. That's one more fly, struggling to reach the light, and meet his doom.
Sad!!
~Matt