Tattooed Mannequin

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Photos taken with my Fujifilm x70 compact camera

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

25 Jul 2017 1 632
“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.

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.

Dumpster face / Cara de basura / Visage poubelle

25 Jul 2017 2 705
“The spirit gone, man is garbage.” ― Joseph Heller Graffiti-art face on a dumpster in an alleyway in Ashland, Oregon.

Automobile address sign /

27 Jul 2017 2 808
“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.

Psychedelic shop window Head

27 Jul 2017 1 547
“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.

Cattle Xing

27 Jul 2017 2 730
“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.

Rusted rural machinery

27 Jul 2017 1 860
“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.

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.

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.

The car that time forgot

25 Jul 2017 2 758
“Guns are like cars: you can trust a good used one better than one that's brand new.” ― Haruki Murakami

Mirror image

28 Jul 2017 4 3 883
“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.

Stuffed Dog

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“Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.” ― Dave Barry Stuffed toy dog, in an emporium in Ashland, Oregon.

Masked girl / Chica enmascarada

31 Jul 2017 4 1 973
“Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?” ― Søren Kierkegaard A visiting friend, wearing her "Wolverine" hoodie.

Rings

31 Jul 2017 5 3 1074
"We will have rings and things and fine array." (William Shakespeare) My friend D.H. showing me his rings.

Abandoned shoes on the Bike Path

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“I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?” ― Charles Bukowski A pair of abandoned shoes / boots on the bike path, near Ashland, Oregon. I couldn't help wondering: does whoever left them here need shoes?

Halloween Skull Mask / Máscara Calavera Halloween

04 Oct 2017 4 3 883
“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.” ― Jim Morrison

Muñecas de cosecha / Harvest dolls

06 Oct 2017 3 2 736
“Qué decirnos que no fueran superficies e ilusiones, de qué hablar si no pasaríamos nunca al otro lado para cerrar el dibujo, si seguíamos buscándonos desde muertos y muñecas.” ― Julio Cortázar