Nabokovian Photo Commentary

This Photograph, taken in 2009 around the end of June in Lander, Wyoming by Charles, is a self portrait showing the mood of which a person might be in after having a rather unusual afternoon. The mirror reflecting the photograph was made from wood taken apart from an old sheep wagon found on the cabin's surrounding property, and the cabin itself was taken apart and rebuilt in the location it sits today. Formerly, this cabin sat 10 miles south of Lander, Wyoming and was a stage coach stop where people such as Billy the Kid had made brief stops. The large logs that this restroom, which the picture was taken in, were made of old railwood ties, where if you look closely one is able to still see old rusty nails that could not have been removed. The pictures hanging which are seen in the mirrors reflection were portraits of the girls mother's family. The women are all wearing rather tight dresses that bell out at the bottom and the photograph of women in bathing suits shows a time period where suits covered most of the body. What one may not know, the ground of which the two are standing on was made completely of rocks found on the property where the cabin sits, and on those rocks were two mousetraps, both occupied.