I often buy frames from thrift stores to use to matte and frame my work for photography shows or to give to people as gifts. One can get some amazing values in that department in a thrift store. Well, that is true in many departments in a thrift store. A fact which I attempt to prove time and again 🙂

At any rate, some of these pictures and frames have been around for a while, I suppose. Yesterday while cleaning a pane of glass and a frame to put one of my pictures in (which is something which sometimes I am loathe to do because the picture I am replacing is better than the one I am replacing it with), I saw that the image had been impressed on the glass.

Below is the original image which made the impression and then two highly worked over images I got of the impression it made. I would have tried to get a better initial capture of the impression, but I really did want to finish framing the picture last night, and there is only so much time that one has when asking one’s roommate to hold up a pane of glass against the light of the kitchen light fixture while one tries to photograph it just so. I am fairly happy with what I was able to capture, though, and showed my excitement. My roommate left the kitchen muttering, “You’re a strange man, Mr. Das.”

Original Image

Images of Impression It Made
I think the light shining from above into the griminess below, particularly for the second image, adds an added layer of meaning and poignancy.