Framedlight

The house I had rented near Abiquiu was an adobe built small cottage which had been built as a schoolhouse in the 1890's. It had been bought by the owner's great grandfather and been in her family since then. We had decided on Abiquiu because of its Georgia O'Keeffe connection. I had liked her work since going to the large retrospective exhibition at the Tate Modern in 2016. As a photographer I also found her relationship with Stieglitz interesting. The morning dawned sunny if not too warm and we were excited to get out and about. But the van wouldn't start. We phoned the owner, phoned the agency, phoned some sort of mechanical online service but nothing was doing. Eventually the help line brought a mechanic to our door who spent time exploring the van, a manual, and chewing his pen. Many cups of coffee later and after tracing some wiring, he found a switch underneath a skirt on the front of the driver's seat which was a kill switch. Which it had done, very effectiv...