MiguelATF's photos
Mirror image
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“Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.”
― W.H. Auden
The photographer reflected in a mirror which is reflecting the mirror image of himself in his camera's screen.
The car that time forgot
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“Guns are like cars: you can trust a good used one better than one that's brand new.”
― Haruki Murakami
Chevy
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“I had a definite sense of somehow being a passenger in an evil vehicle crusing through Paradise.”
― Sam Shepard
Chevrolet sedan parked on the street in a southern Oregon town that hasn't changed that much since the 1950's.
Doppelgänger
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“That man, especially when he slept, when his features were motionless, showed me my own face, my mask...”
― Vladimir Nabokov
“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
― Samuel Beckett
Taking a photo of a reflection of a photo of the photographer.
Rusted rural machinery
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“A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin
Rusted machines in the front yard of a rural home, outside of Gold Hill, Oregon.
Cattle Xing
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“To country people Cows are mild,
And flee from any stick they throw;
But I’m a timid town bred child,
And all the cattle seem to know.”
― T.S. Eliot
Cattle crossing in rural southern Oregon.
Psychedelic shop window Head
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“LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.”
― Timothy Leary
Mannequin head wearing psychedelic glasses, in a shop window in Gold Hill Oregon.
Automobile address sign /
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“I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals; I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.”
― Roland Barthes
Hot Rod street address sign, somewhere in remote rural southern Oregon.
Dumpster face / Cara de basura / Visage poubelle
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“The spirit gone, man is garbage.”
― Joseph Heller
Graffiti-art face on a dumpster in an alleyway in Ashland, Oregon.
Shop Window
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“Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.”
― Paul McCartney
Shop window in Ashland, Oregon.
Tattooed Mannequin
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“When I got the tattoo, I knew I was drawing a crooked line between myself and society.”
― Warren Ellis
A tattooed mannequin in a shopwindow, in Ashland, Oregon.
Tattoo face in window
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“Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.”
― Jack London
Tattooed mannequin in a shopwindow in Ashland, Oregon.
Supermarket Frog
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“If frogs had side pockets, they'd carry hand guns.”
― Dan Rather
Plastic toy frog for sale in the local supermarket in Talent, Oregon.
Hand in hand / Mano en mano / De main en main
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The hand is a fragment of a tiny old Japanese ivory doll/sculpture that belonged to my mother.
Discarded Couch + Poster
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“Just because people throw it out and don't have any use for it, doesn't mean it's garbage.”
― Andy Warhol
Discarded couch and an old theater poster advertising Hamlet, in a rural property in Southern Oregon.
Abandoned Couch
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Es una casa tan grande la ausencia que pasarás en ella a través de los muros y colgarás los cuadros en el aire.
(Pablo Neruda)
Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.
Abandoned couch in the town of Talent, Oregon.
Electric Power Meter
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“There are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards.”
― Bram Stoker
Electric power meter in downtown Talent, Oregon.
Roadkill
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“Be careful, or be roadkill!”
― Bill Watterson (Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection)
Dead squirrel / roadkill - on a heavily-trafficked rural street in Talent, Oregon.
