honorable mention
Y. Hope Osborn united states
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Honor Guard
Stronghold, located near Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA might go unnoticed in its field and treed hill against the nearby botanical garden Garvan Gardens, coexisting cultivated beauty with roughened stock and hay building and pleasure with work.
Stability is sturdy in its simplicity. It solitarily squats in a mown field, keeping its secrets of livestock, hay, or feed, or might there be other—truck, emptiness, reprieve from storm when far afield.
Relentless’ candy-striped roofed was one of several interesting features, including two vented extensions on the roof echoing the barn’s larger design, a one-time windmilled well, and an entrance that copied a historical aspect of barns—a stone entrance built up for a person to walk over without the animals following and without impeding doors.
Rustic was a monument to a 93-year old woman’s continued care for the one-time home within. When she was 13 she married and began her life’s journey in it. I always imagine the couple planting the oak standing over the barn.
I can’t tell you how many times I passed barns in times past without a glance. Now I notice these ordinary structures for the extraordinary variety of architecture that are often overlooked stalwarts of the rural. When all else falls the barn stands to protect those within.
This barn collection of which I currently have eight total all sit along highways and byways of scenic Arkansas—some forgotten, others respected for no trespassing signs, some used, and others sagging closer to the ground each year in disuse. Who will remember them or their architects if not for records such as this?
Hope has an MA in Professional and Technical Writing and is published as author and artist with Woods Reader, Plants and Poetry Journal, Whitefish Review, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Writers’ Network, Awakenings, The Sunlight Press, and multiple blogs, including Fusion Arts and Red Cross. Her works are exhibited and awarded, including Monovisions Awards, Julia Margaret Cameron Photography Award, International Photography Award, Neutral Density, Not Real Art Artist Grant, See|Me, Arkansas Arts Council SWOP 2024, locally, internationally, online, and off (Portland, Oregon; New York City; Miami Scope; Santa Paula, California; Arkansas—USA; and Barcelona, Spain).
Hope believes being a great author and artist is to be entrusted to express reality and imagination that captivates, inspires, or informs while enriching lives.
Regardless of accomplishment, Hope believes being a great author and artist is to be entrusted to express reality and imagination that captivates, inspires, or informs while enriching lives.
yhosborn@gmail.com
mediamosaicart.net
mediamosaic.net
Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube @yhopeosborn
Facebook @yhopeosbornphotography
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entry description
Repose is from a trip through the Ozarks. Arkansans may recognize it from viewing the Elk sanctuary nearby.Stronghold, located near Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA might go unnoticed in its field and treed hill against the nearby botanical garden Garvan Gardens, coexisting cultivated beauty with roughened stock and hay building and pleasure with work.
Stability is sturdy in its simplicity. It solitarily squats in a mown field, keeping its secrets of livestock, hay, or feed, or might there be other—truck, emptiness, reprieve from storm when far afield.
Relentless’ candy-striped roofed was one of several interesting features, including two vented extensions on the roof echoing the barn’s larger design, a one-time windmilled well, and an entrance that copied a historical aspect of barns—a stone entrance built up for a person to walk over without the animals following and without impeding doors.
Rustic was a monument to a 93-year old woman’s continued care for the one-time home within. When she was 13 she married and began her life’s journey in it. I always imagine the couple planting the oak standing over the barn.
I can’t tell you how many times I passed barns in times past without a glance. Now I notice these ordinary structures for the extraordinary variety of architecture that are often overlooked stalwarts of the rural. When all else falls the barn stands to protect those within.
This barn collection of which I currently have eight total all sit along highways and byways of scenic Arkansas—some forgotten, others respected for no trespassing signs, some used, and others sagging closer to the ground each year in disuse. Who will remember them or their architects if not for records such as this?
about the photographer
Y. Hopes Osborn is a freelance author, artist, editor, and web designer residing in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. She writes about flora to educate and entertain and about personal trauma to encourage survivors and expose victimization. She photographs the jewels of color landscapes, composes black and white abstract and documentary photographic studies of historic and timeworn architecture, and digitally abstracts photographs for imagination’s realms.Hope has an MA in Professional and Technical Writing and is published as author and artist with Woods Reader, Plants and Poetry Journal, Whitefish Review, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Writers’ Network, Awakenings, The Sunlight Press, and multiple blogs, including Fusion Arts and Red Cross. Her works are exhibited and awarded, including Monovisions Awards, Julia Margaret Cameron Photography Award, International Photography Award, Neutral Density, Not Real Art Artist Grant, See|Me, Arkansas Arts Council SWOP 2024, locally, internationally, online, and off (Portland, Oregon; New York City; Miami Scope; Santa Paula, California; Arkansas—USA; and Barcelona, Spain).
Hope believes being a great author and artist is to be entrusted to express reality and imagination that captivates, inspires, or informs while enriching lives.
Regardless of accomplishment, Hope believes being a great author and artist is to be entrusted to express reality and imagination that captivates, inspires, or informs while enriching lives.
yhosborn@gmail.com
mediamosaicart.net
mediamosaic.net
Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube @yhopeosborn
Facebook @yhopeosbornphotography
back to gallery