Going to the Gin

Max Heldman

About 1970

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The Needles, Ed Willis Barnett, gelatin silver print
This black and white photograph represents a closely cropped detail of a doorway protected by an iron gate. A key hole for the gate can be seen at the center left.
This black and white photograph represents a tangle of branches, seen from above. The photograph is cropped to represent only the branches, and they become somewhat abstract, extending from the top edge to the bottom edge and from the left edge to the right edge of the image.
At the center of the work is an irregular circle outlined in black. The circle is divided into a light blue upper portion and a light pink lower portion. The circle is partially intersected by a stroke of brown paint emerging from the right. Above the circle are two slanted lines that meet at the bottom of an irregular black rectangle, part of which is covered in brown with two dashes of light blue below it. Two thin vertical black lines emerge from the bottom towards the circle. The background of the work is painted white.