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Who is the Boss?

‘Who is the Boss?’ Gold medal at the 2021 North Shore National Salon of Photography

In one of my visits to the Takapuna Sunday market I was chatting to a woman who was selling life-size wooden bulldogs. I made a smart comment about people who purchase wooden dogs and she said that she owns a real one. A week later she visited my studio together with her daughter. Being so heavy, the dog would not climb and kept drooling so they both made a huge effort to lift him off the floor and onto the armchair. The image sat in my collection until I trespassed into this fire damaged house in Sunnynook!

2021 Iris Awards

2021 Iris

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2021 Art In the Park

Baby Rhino © Ilan Wittenberg 2020 Limited Edition of 30 + 2AP Buy Now

The Gargoyle © Ilan Wittenberg 2015 Limited Edition of 9 + 2AP Buy Now

Zebra Looking Down © Ilan Wittenberg 2018 Limited Edition of 30 + 2AP Buy Now

Yellow Twigs © Ilan Wittenberg 2019 Limited Edition of 30 + 2AP Buy Now

Yawning Camel © Ilan Wittenberg 2020 Limited Edition of 30 + 2AP Buy Now

Woman on a Tree © Ilan Wittenberg 2019 Limited Edition of 30 + 2AP Buy Now

Willow tree and Moon © Ilan Wittenberg 2016 Limited Edition of 40 + 2AP Buy Now

Who is the Boss? © Ilan Wittenberg 2021 Limited Edition of 9 + 2AP Buy Now

War of the Worlds © Ilan Wittenberg 2020 Limited Edition of 30 + 2AP Buy Now

Volcanic Ash © Ilan Wittenberg 2016 Limited Edition of 30 + 2AP Buy Now

Three Proteas © Ilan Wittenberg 2020 Limited Edition of 30 + 2AP Buy Now

The Nymph © Ilan Wittenberg 2019 Limited Edition of 30 + 2AP Buy Now

Two trees in the Savanna © Ilan Wittenberg 2018 Limited Edition of 30 + 2AP Buy Now

Tunnel Beach © Ilan Wittenberg 2018 Limited Edition of 30 + 2AP Buy Now

The Jetty © Ilan Wittenberg 2018 Limited Edition of 9 + 2AP Buy Now

The Huntress © Ilan Wittenberg 2018 Limited Edition of 9 + 2AP Buy Now

The Empire State © Ilan Wittenberg 2019 Limited Edition of 30 + 2AP Buy Now

Temptation © Ilan Wittenberg 2019 Limited Edition of 30 + 2AP Buy Now

Sitting on the Rocks © Ilan Wittenberg 2018 Limited Edition of 30 + 2AP Buy Now

Silo Six © Ilan Wittenberg 2015 Limited Edition of 9 + 2AP Buy Now

Scapes © Ilan Wittenberg 2017 Limited Edition of 9 + 2AP Buy Now

Remarkable Rocks © Ilan Wittenberg 2016 Limited Edition of 9 + 2AP Buy Now

Yellow Baboon © Ilan Wittenberg 2020 Limited Edition of 30 + 2AP Buy Now

Nude Mandala © Ilan Wittenberg 2018 Limited Edition of 9 + 2AP Buy Now

Technicolor © Ilan Wittenberg 2020 Limited Edition of 30 + 2AP Buy Now

Nine Daemons © Ilan Wittenberg 2018 Limited Edition of 30 + 2AP Buy Now

Drought © Ilan Wittenberg 2019 Limited Edition of 9 + 2AP Buy Now

Piazza del Campo © Ilan Wittenberg 2015 Limited Edition of 9 + 2AP Buy Now

On the Rocks © Ilan Wittenberg 2021 Limited Edition of 30 + 2AP Buy Now

Juxtaposition © Ilan Wittenberg 2021 Limited Edition of 30 + 2AP Buy Now

Hand in the Sand © Ilan Wittenberg 2021 Limited Edition of 30 + 2AP Buy Now

Embracing © Ilan Wittenberg 2019 Limited Edition of 30 + 2AP Buy Now

Cracked © Ilan Wittenberg 2019 Limited Edition of 9 + 2AP Buy Now

Convergence © Ilan Wittenberg 2018 Limited Edition of 30 + 2AP Buy Now

Cumulonimbus © Ilan Wittenberg 2020 Limited Edition of 30 + 2AP Buy Now

Climbing Up © Ilan Wittenberg 2018 Limited Edition of 30 + 2AP Buy Now

Brooklyn Bridge © Ilan Wittenberg 2018 Limited Edition of 30 + 2AP Buy Now

(c) Ilan Wittenberg

Staging Art

Silo Six: Entrance / Foyer wall 1

Entrance / Foyer wall 1

Blue Sphere -Entrance, wall 2

Entrance, wall 2

Willow Tree and Mood: Lounge

Lounge 1/2

War of the Worlds: Lounge 2/2

Lounge 2/2

The Jetty: Stairwell – Top level

Stairwell – Top level

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Blue Light: ?

Brooklyn Bridge: bedroom 1

bedroom 1

Yellow Twigs: ?

Abstract Kaleidoscope: Lounge, above fireplace

Lounge, above fireplace

Boat Graveyard: Top of staircase landing

Top of staircase landing

Dining room – horizontal layout

Dining room – horizontal layout

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Who is the Boss?

Gold medal for ‘Who is the Boss?’ at the 2021 North Shore National Salon of photography – Prints Open

The Cave

Silver medal for ‘The Cave’ at the 2021 North Shore National Salon of photography – Monochrome category

(c) Ilan Wittenberg

Devi

(c) Ilan Wittenberg

Brooke

(c) Ilan Wittenberg

The Tin Soldier Ballerina

“The Steadfast Tin Soldier” is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a tin soldier’s love for a paper ballerina. The tale was first published in October 1838 in the first booklet of Fairy Tales Told for Children. It has since been adapted to various media including ballet and animated film.

On his birthday, a boy receives a set of 25 toy soldiers all cast from one old tin spoon and arrays them on a table top. One soldier stands on a single leg because, as he was the last one cast, there was not enough metal to make him whole. Nearby, the soldier spies a pretty paper ballerina with a spangle on her sash. She, too, is standing on one leg, and the soldier falls in love. That night, a goblin among the toys in the form of a jack-in-the-box, who also loves the ballerina, angrily warns the soldier to take his eyes off her, but the soldier ignores him.

The next day, the soldier falls from a windowsill (presumably the work of the goblin) and lands in the street. Two boys find the soldier, place him in a paper boat, and set him sailing in the gutter. The boat and its passenger wash into a storm drain, where a rat demands the soldier pay a toll.

Sailing on, the boat is washed into a canal, where the tin soldier is swallowed by a fish. When this fish is caught and cut open, the tin soldier finds himself once again on the table top before the ballerina. Inexplicably, the boy throws the tin soldier into the fire, which is most likely the work of the jack-in-the-box goblin. A wind blows the ballerina into the fire with him; she is consumed by it. The maid cleans the fireplace in the morning and finds that the soldier has melted into a little tin heart, along with the ballerina’s spangle, which is now burned black as coal.