Donald Diddams
The Art of Digital Art
Colonial-era “Copper”
While enduring a stressful period in one of my other endeavors, it seemed a good time to work on what I hoped would be a peaceful landscape, a pretty picture. This was the result.
Copper - 2009
The object in the foreground is a colonial-era artifact known as a “copper”. These large iron containers were used to boil down the cane juice in the production of sugar during the sugar and slave-trade era in the Caribbean. So even this tranquil scene carries a mixed message from our past, and begs questions about the vestiges of that past that remain.
Donald Diddams 
It does look very nice and meditative. Makes me think of a monk’s begging bowl.
It is a nice spot, Jala. Never thought of the copper as a monk’s begging bowl, but it fits the scene. Big monk, though.
I always feel that dichotomy of trespassing on an awful time in history when I walk around ” ruins ” and ” overseers ” houses.
Trying to imagine the heat, the conditions, the bondage- it’s very powerful.
There’s a different juxtaposition in what you’ve done to make the tree look like a bonsai next to a mixing bowl. Hard to tell which is big and which is miniature.
Makes one think….
Well, you nailed this one, Bonnie. Thanks!