Poster Image
$20
Item#: 2003SYR01
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11x17-inches, printed on heavy weight (100-pound) Hammermill cover paper. We package each print with a piece of chipboard in a clear plastic sleeve.
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An information page with photos of the artist and poet, and hand-written comments from each.
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Poem Inspiration Location
Where Tomatoes Blush
poster information
Description
Where tomatoes blush—
as shoppers caress their flesh
The Farmers Market
I'm addicted to the farmer's market. I absolutely love it. In fact, whenever I have friends in town, and it happens to be on the weekend, why, I get them to the farmers market, because I just think it's one of Syracuse's real showpieces.
And I have collections of photos that I've done there. I love to see the farmers. I love to see people looking seriously at all the different things, trying to make up their minds. You know, which head of broccoli is the best. Especially around here, in August and September, when the tomatoes look really great, and they're so many of them that people do have to make up their minds which they want. These big decisions of the week. So they do check things out. And they always look so colorful, really almost seductive.
The Syracuse Farmer's market was pretty good. Fresh produce can never be beat, the fresh donuts were amazing, and it was refreshing to get off campus and be around country people in flannel, working with their hands reminded me of home (N.H.).
As for the illustration, my main focuses were on color and design. I did take a few liberties—the architecture does not match and those tomatoes are definitely hovering—but the playfulness and personality come through.