Who’s in our yard?
“Spaceman!”
“The Light Bringer!”
“We’re watching you.”
“This is my best side.”
Christopher J Ananias (text and images)
Who’s In Our Yard by Christopher J Ananias
Saragun Springs
Snarl at the Dying of the Light
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Who’s in our yard?
“Spaceman!”
“The Light Bringer!”
“We’re watching you.”
“This is my best side.”
Christopher J Ananias (text and images)
Saragun Springs 
I liked the shot of the raccoons. Reminded me of when, 40 years ago, my old farmhouse was invaded by troupe of coons. When I first saw the results of their mischief, I was taken aback: doors and drawers–even flour and sugar cannisters–had been opened. It was like an old 1960s Disney nature short. Yikes! Also reminded my of Stephen North’s early 20th century memoir, “Rascal,” about taking a raccoon juvnile from the wild and raising it, with mixed results. Thanks for the pictorial.
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Thank you CJA and the Light Bringer Carisa
The use of light creates such wonderfully creepy effects. Like you, we have Raccoons like the mail carries pizza coupons. Had a group of three cubs come by as regulars this past summer after their Mom brought them around once. She let them know I am an easy touch. Very easy to make friends with. Great little visual tale here.
Leila
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CJA
Art is (perhaps) about transformation if it is about anything at all; and you have achieved that goal here. These pictures have an uncanny edginess to them brought about by the light, the way of the light (the way it’s used) and the lack of light here. It’s like a combo of Rembrandt’s experiments and 1950s American horror movies of the classic variety.
For pictures to leap free of the constraints of the usual (or the mundane), they need to have a tone, and a stance, just like writing does. Very few pictures manage to be both genuinely funny and genuinely scary at the same time, but these pictures do that. Therefore, they touch the limits of a new tone. This, among other issues, is what makes them artistic and not just something that is created for the hell of it.
The first picture and the spaceman picture are genuinely scary on numerous levels. Yet they have humor too, leading us back into a new tone. The pictures of the ‘coons and the deer defamiliarize these amazing American creatures and they make the viewer wonder what goes on in the animal world/s, and maybe other worlds, while we are sleeping, or while we are supposed to be sleeping.
The Light Bringer photo works as the centerpiece of this collection. This picture adds greatly to the complexity of the whole series. A haunting beauty comes through strongly. This world is not just made up of horrors and humor (and life is filled with more than enough of both). It’s also made up of beauty, which also overflows, if you know where to look.
Jesus called it “the light of the body.” What he meant by that was that some people have an inspiring glow about them at all times, even when, or especially when, they themselves are unaware of it, or don’t care, and by don’t care I mean in the good sense of not caring, like Bukowski’s “Don’t try.”
Native Americans were and are on very friendly terms with the animals of this continent (for the most part) and their culture/s frequently also celebrate and explore the existence of these things like extraterrestrial creatures (from outer space) and a belief in Big Foot, Sasquatch, the Big Muddy Monster (as he’s called in southern Illinois) and other outlandish, so-called pseudo-scientific and possibly mythic creatures and characters out of the deep woods and the deep prairies. As such, these pictures have been influenced in the best of ways by the Native American spirit.
Tell Carisa I said hi!
Great job on these at all levels!
DWB
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