Barn Bones I
by Jani Freimann
Title
Barn Bones I
Artist
Jani Freimann
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
The floor was kind of soft in spots and the wind was howling outside the building, but it was quiet and warm inside this beautiful, abandoned old barn.
The story:
This barn stands loyally next to a road like a frozen centurion guarding it's field. Many of the old barns around me are next to a main road. It made it easy to pick up or receive hay and for those farms that shipped out product like vegetables. This particular barn has a trap door in the floor (see second photo). Under the floor is the ground and enough standing room for livestock. Something like a sheltered space for livestock to eat hay. Around here it rains a lot. Perhaps it was to give the livestock a dry space to eat.
I had driven by this barn many times, but this day the light streaming through the boards caught my artistic eye. I pulled over and walked towards the opening with my camera held tightly to my body. It was extremely windy and cold. The wind whipped my hair around so much that I wished I had put it up in a pony tail. Once inside the barn, it struck me how eerily quite and warm it was. The light coming through the barn walls made neat abstract shapes, but the wind didn't come through. It seemed as though this abandoned and retired old barn was desperately hanging onto the memories of its former job.
The roof was made of metal and some of it was loose; flapping in the wind and slapping down.
After deciding that the barn was not at all as frail as it appeared and wasn't going to fall on my head, I set out to capture the abstract shapes that this bony barn was showing off. All the while the wind screaming around its corners and lifting the loosened, metal roof pieces and banging them down again and again; as if it were attempting to blow down its seemingly frail frame, but it remained steadfast in its place. This old barn has good, sturdy and unshakable bones.
I wish I had a recording of the sounds to go with the pictures because they were as much a part of the story as the rays of light coming through the walls.
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May 13th, 2011
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