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Zenda Sequence Images: Railroad Station/Freeze Frame Snapshots
This page begins the overview line-up of photo text available for the cumulative shoots for Freeze Frame Snapshots during the years 2000/2001.
The links attached to this page begin the location at Zenda, Wisconsin in the southeast part of the state in a section principally made up of older farms and rural county routes, state highways, towns, the stateline roadway, and new developments.
The location shoot at Zenda was the basis for a story which I am roughing out by name of "The Deadly Eighteen". The opening chapters of the roughly outlined thriller, can be read (for free) at the angelfire site, named Diamond Dollar Fairytales, under the story's name. (See links page.)
The cumulative shoots for 2000/2001 were entirely developed from original starters, which are also on view hereat, and the technique of preservation was solarization and polarization, because it was an available computer enhancement technique which truly brought out the thriller/horror aspects of the storybooks I have worked on in relation to these location sites.
Later photos will show an Illinois location and will be discussed on their own separate pages. However, the computer tinting and polarizations continue to apply. I think of these photos as belonging to an album I will utimately call: "The Ghormenghast Albums".
In relation to the ultimate storybook project, browsing through my websites, you will find a substantial portion of my work and research is dedicated to the research and translations of medieval fairytale, folklore, myth, history, civilization and also literature. I have been terrifically impressed with the central idea of a time and a place and perhaps even a government or a war, in the medieval era, by the name of Ghormenghast, which tied all of history from 200 to 1200 A.D. to itself.
I believe there is a fictional ideal to learn from this Ghormenghast thematic image cursory to many fairytales of the time and that this fictional ideal related to time-travel and the correlation of that era to millenia of several universal parallels; and that, contextually based upon this vision of an empire, a fantastic type of nuclear threat became the central focus of all legend and civilization.
While I took these shoots I was working (as I still am) on Malory in translation and this project requires a substantial amount of time devoted to research and thought, merely to underestimate what the context of the text wants to convey as historically appropriate.
I also wanted to work on other projects in research and fiction and I found myself quite overextended and decided to put some time into a hobby like photography, which has been a great outlet to my writing/researching schedule.
So while I planned to take pictures, I was constantly planning to rebuild the Arthurian or Charlemagnic empire whenever time provided. When I sat down to do computer edits of my photo development (that I had done from three different stores, I have to admit), I saw Ghormenghast raise itself from the polarization fields of the record effects.
I honestly feel that these multiple images do convey the photo text of my own efforts to describe a separate world of fiction on the very ground on which mankind finds himself standing. One that is rich in fantastic possibility and which requires an agreement to believe in an entire universe of historical precepts besides only those which we have known in the rage and fury and advancements and modernizations of the 20th century, or even of the renaissance generation which brings us here through conventional three-dimensional spacetime and history.
Photography has the power to unlock the world of literature through the simple device of visual imagery and I feel that these combined shoots do capture the modern fantasy quality of Ghormenghast as I have tried to describe it.
I hope to shoot more location sites under the same technique to find out if this is true, or if perhaps, yet another era of travel into literary spacetime evolves.
It takes several pages to show these accumulated photos. (Other shoots included still commercial photo. These shots are on view at the Tripod site known as Diamond Dogs. Please see links page.)