Yikes! More Sikes!

 

The leaves have pretty much all fallen from the trees along the woodland way into downtown Northampton.

 

What was the inspiration behind this pro-carrot statement someone painted upon the path?

 

 

That carrots are good for you? Eat some and you'll see better all day? Who knows.

Searching around the other day I came across a handful more photos by the late Keith Sikes that I should have included in the previous post. 

Here's a shot he took of Springfield pols former Mayor Mary Hurley and former State Senator Linda Melconian in 2016.

 

 

This 2006 photo from a display of Keith's work at Tower Square shows a disturbing juxtaposition of innocence and lethality and a digitally altered self-portrait entitled simply "Divorce."

 

 

 This is Springfield native and Classical High School graduate Dr. Timothy Leary as captured by Sikes in 1985. Keith was also a Classical alumnus.

 

 

"When we spoke, we reminisced about one of the Classical mantras: "Don't do anything that if everybody did it, it would destroy society" We laughed realizing we had done the exact opposite." - Keith Sikes on meeting Dr. Leary.

 

I love this haunting 1974 picture Keith took of the sphynx outside the Barney Mausoleum in Forest Park in Springfield. 

 

 

Sadly, there will never be any new Keith Sikes photos. 

"Once, there was aplenty, but from that well, no more." - Robert Hunter

Multi-media artist Dann Vazquez took a walk in the Northampton woods.

 

Make up your own punchline.