Acts of Seeing: Abandoned House

Photo by John MacDougall

In this series, I look at some of my own photos and try to determine their governing aesthetic. 

Here’s one of an abandoned house that I took this summer on Prince Edward Island. I’m drawn to ruins. They speak to me of mortality. This one is a beauty. What is beautiful is the visual texture of the disintegrating cornflower-blue roof. If you could lift that roof off and hang it on a wall, you’d have a gorgeous abstract rendering of texture – the texture of time.