baby moons

With a wink and a nod to the painter Wassily Kendinsky and His color wheel study, my image has a slightly different twist.  The concentric circles in this image tell a story of “Old School” style wheels and hubcaps. First in the center is the Baby Moon hubcap then the bright red rim of the steel wheel. Next the chrome beauty ring, then the white sidewalls followed by the black of the tire tread. All circles within circles. The colors and chrome help keep the contrast between all the circles. As the saying goes, “Artists sometimes put themselves into their work.”  The distorted reflection on the hubcap reflects two more circles and myself.

Shapes, curves and squiggly lines was what I reacted to in making my image.  A slow curved bead of a fender-less ’32 Ford Highboy, and cross light added contrast to the lines in the tread of a classic fluted side-walled tire, better known as the “Pie Crust Look.”  The wide white wall of the tire adds contrast to the image and mimics the shape of the metal curve above.  The wheel well falls into shadow, isolating the tire as the slightly warm light falling on the tread pushes the tire towards the viewer.