honorable mention
Y. Hope Osborn united states
Photo © Y. Hope Osborn
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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 online Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Her works are exhibited and awarded, including Monovisions Awards, Neutral Density, Julia Margaret Cameron Photography Award, International Photography Awards, Architecture Masterprize, See|Me, internationally, online, and off in Portland, Oregon; New York City; Santa Paula, California, Arkansas—USA and Barcelona, Spain. She won Not Real Art Artist Award and $10,000 Mid-America Arts Alliance Catalyze grants.
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.
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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. Hope Osborn is an author, photographer, digital artist, and editor residing in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. Her published writing includes ecological experiences that educate and entertain and personal traumas that encourage survivors and expose victimization. She relies on God’s strength to photographically document space and time of natural color environment; historic often dilapidated black and white studies of built; and more recently, where they intersect. Her absolute art is the fusion of photographs and texts of history and her story, weaving art with how she/we think, feel, believe, connect, and care.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 online Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Her works are exhibited and awarded, including Monovisions Awards, Neutral Density, Julia Margaret Cameron Photography Award, International Photography Awards, Architecture Masterprize, See|Me, internationally, online, and off in Portland, Oregon; New York City; Santa Paula, California, Arkansas—USA and Barcelona, Spain. She won Not Real Art Artist Award and $10,000 Mid-America Arts Alliance Catalyze grants.
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.
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