In September we spent a week in Wisconsin. While there, we toured both Taliesin and House on the Rock (in the same day!). They were each fantastic in their own way.
Taliesin
While in Phoenix a year ago we toured Taliesin West. As with that time, we came away wanting to renovate our house. We love Frank Lloyd Wright’s simple but elegant architecture. My goal photographing Taliesin was to extract my own artistic images from the environment, not to document the place, consequently I don’t have many photographs. With the few I’ve published here, I emphasize the fabulous use of geometric shapes.
House On The Rock
House On The Rock is like touring a giant weird fantastic dream. I could spend days there, we didn’t even get through the whole thing in an afternoon and there’s so much fantastic visual clutter it’s overwhelming. The carousel alone is worth hours, and that’s even without being able to ride it! Of course they can’t let you do that, since, according to Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods” novel, it’s a gateway into the world of gods. I can believe it!
The photographic challenges in House On the Rock were to isolate the image from the visual clutter and the dim available light.
