ROMAN LIGHTS -- Artefact Series, No. 1

These are Roman lamps, real ones. You can see where thumbs wore away the stone and terracotta at one end. I wish I knew whose thumbs they were.

They're very hard to keep lit. Romans must have been better at it than I am. They are filled with olive oil, a taper is stuck in and there you go.

I wanted to photograph them in the dark, the shapes shown only by the light of the flame. That didn't work, did it? I couldn't focus. Indeed, the black one of these is right out of focus but you can see the different shape and material. One Roman lamp in focus is better than none.
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This was taken at the Christmas market shortly after it opened. It's not a self portrait and it's not my camera. It was meant for someone else but blippers sussed it out when they looked at Favio, the techie. I didn't know I had dark circles under my eyes. The camera sees what the eyes do not. Herself.

It's another dreich day and bucketing with rain here in sunny Tuscany.