I've always liked this colander, which has been sitting on the deck ever since we got a different one (with less tendency to splash hot liquids).
It ended up on this table after I tidied up the deck for a social distancing visit from an out of town friend passing through en route home. I was taking pictures of Hosta leaves nearby when I noticed these reflections and patterns. It helped that I had just finished watering that side of the garden and the wet surfaces made everything more interesting.
Thank you for the comments. I was interested to read that streetpigeon's wife liked it and that she taught math, since I know my mathematics background is tied in with my enjoyment of these types of images, or more properly both likely stem from the same part of my brain!
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I collect colanders, though indeed we use them all for garden stuff; many battered, some sturdy, some tinny and 2 shiny, always interesting. But your combo of patterns is pure wickedness.
Interesting image that's hard to focus on realistically and therefore transforms itself into abstraction. It's busy, even dizzying, with frantic lines, shapes and textures rising like a tidal wave. I find I can settle it down by softening my vision and seeing it as a force field. It's an unusual sensation that induces a sense of being both energized and exhausted. It's op art wrought of everyday objects, and quite creative. My wife, who taught math, just wandered by and said, "Oh, I like that. It's very mathematical." Also, to appreciate the title, it does seem like the game of go.
Thank you.
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