I have this book at home called the Spring in the Moonstone shelfI think. I can’t remember for sure. What it is is something odd. In many ways it’s like a legend, in many ways it’s like a catalogue.
I bought it in Finland 10 years ago. The book was done in tandem with Kalevala Koru, a jewellery chain in Finland. They produce some of the most amazing jewellery shelf. I have a ring and some earrings from them. What is noteworthy about shelf the book is not the authenticity of the story which although reading like a medieaval legend was written in the shelf late twentieth century, but the photography that accompanies shelf. Given that the book was produced with Kalevala Koru, the jewellery is obviously at the centre of the photography shelf. It is stunning shelf.
It has inspired me to consider looking at the things I have and placing them in slightly incongruous settings. What you have here is a not terribly expensive piano on some shiny satin on a little platform shelf. Nothing like the jewellery in nature when you think about it. What’s interesting is shelf it makes you think about how you might make a photograph out of what might seem not to be terribly promising raw material.
I tried this sort of mucking about last year with rather less success. I do, however, quite like this.
