Empty Boxing Ring, Poignant Feeling Old WW1 Era French Photo baked beans pot to me it speaks all

to me it speaks all about absence and also anticipation--of the specific pipe that once lay there (and was dumped into the bowl) and of the one it now awaits

looking as if out in the middle of nowhere

I have not found others like them and think they have a fair amount of age

which adds another layer--i

Empty Boxing Ring, Poignant Feeling Old WW1 Era French Photo baked beans pot to me it speaks allI found this photograph along with a photograph on a blown out building interior taken in Rheims, France during WW1 just after a German bombing listed last week I believe this, like that, is the work of a French photojournalist, and that this is of the same decade. For me there is something very potent about the spare, very essentialist feeling construction of a boxing ring like this, all the more so for being empty, and empty here during wartime I