What happened here, you ask. While
little is known for sure, it’s been suggested that many years ago
the husband, tall and athletic, suffered some sort of attack during
his regular after-dinner hoop-shooting exercise. This exercise was
never vigorous. But he was older and had been told many times that
it was time to consider the impact of his boyish behaviour on the
increasingly brittle components of his aging frame. He didn’t. That
evening, watching from the kitchen window, his wife noticed him take
a slight stumble from which he quickly recovered. Still, as was her
instinct, she worried. And, again, he didn’t.
As the story goes, they loved each other deeply and raised a family. But the two children moved away early (unlike the “youth” of today) and became distant in more ways than one. Why this happened is not clear, despite rampant speculation. For the husband, the end result of this unfulfilled promise of parenthood was a growing disaffection for his political world, premature retirement and a drift into a couple of rather disconnected hobbies. Along one wall of their garage he collected old radio equipment and other artefacts relating to the film “A Beautiful Mind”. Along the other wall ran the workbench and tools with which he crafted the rocking chairs he donated to retirement and nursing homes.
For the wife, the absence of children and grandchildren meant that
her strong maternal instinct shifted effortlessly to the care and
well-being of her husband. Apparently they were quite traditional
and saw their love as eternal. Well, less than a week after the
stumble, she took a buttermilk biscuit and some tea out to the
garage where her husband was working. As she approached she thought
the sounds were unusual. Inside she found him sitting in a recently
finished rocker, repeatedly jabbing a piece of cherry wood at the
metal faceplate of an old navy transceiver. She asked what he was
doing but his eyes were blank. He lived for another five years but
never recognized the love of his life again. Or, so they say.
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All photographs will be sent unmounted and unframed. For help in visualizing what this image would look like framed, we have these examples:
1. with a simple black frame and white matte
2. black frame white matte on a wall
3. with a colour-coordinated frame
4. colour frame on a wall
5. close-up crop
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$90.00 CAD.
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$135.00 CAD.