Photo Essay: Everything But the Kitchen Sink
- Leigh Shulman and Candice Walsh. Feature photo by Let’s Eat.
1. Here’s a sink dressed up in pastel colors and checkerboard print found in a chalet in Alsace. Photo by socaloca
2.Part of me wants to clean up the muck splattered all over, but mostly, I’m taken in by the collision of color. Photo by Philo Nordlund.
3. A decrepit sink in an abandoned house on the eastern plains of Colorado. Photo by vjstark.
4. This sink comes from an exhibit not-surprisingly titled “Everything But the Kitchen Sink” at the Fine Arts Center of Kershaw County, South Carolina. The original sink-art by Keith Tolen is called Sink-e-delic. The photographer calls his sink photo Testing Twittergram. Photo by raggedj.
5. Sink graffiti, from Paris. The photographer explains how you find them all over the city in different colors. Photo by reel aesthete.
6. You never know what you’ll pass along the way. This sink looks like it somehow belongs all shiny, clean and among the weeds. Photo by DPhotoOP.
7.Flamingos in the sink. Of course there are. Photo by ricko.
8. Underneath the sink. The parts you rarely notice unless they stop working. Photo by jhhwild.
9. Every sink should have a window over it, so your eyes can drift to the outside world while you’re finishing those mundane chores. The photographer calls the photo “Canning Day,” but it’s the striking blue scene outside the window you notice first. That and the evil strawberry on the wall. Photo by MizMagee.
10. This sink took part in the 2008 Museum of Modern Art exhibit titled “Home Delivery.” Want to see more from this exhibit? Photo by Scott Norsworthy.
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These photographs attempt to take the mundane, boring kitchen sink and turn it into something different. Do they succeed? Tell us your thoughts in the comments below.
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yup… something different….
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I’m so intrigued by #3 – the house in Eastern CO… what did that place look like when it was newly built? who were the people who lived there? where did they come from? what were their dreams and plans? where are the children who might’ve grown up here? and who were the last tenants…how did this house – once someone’s sacred shelter – become so neglected? These are thoughts whenever I see an abandoned house…it begs so many questions.
Love all these photos…
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The last one is interesting. It’s strange to see the sink just jutting out like that!
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Ditto what Robyn said. Abandoned houses/sites are so intriguing. What stories do these places have to tell? I always wonder what the last day it was occupied was like. Great photos.
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Thanks everyone! It was a lot of fun to put together. Who knew sinks could be so crazy?
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Such ideas is a COOL. I read this post carefully and like it so much. nice to see this and hope 4 more ^_^
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Hahaha! Hilarious. There is not much better than a good sink, though.
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