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Peter Tytla's rural fantasies

5:05 PM Tue, Jun 16, 2009 |
By Robert Whitcomb    Email this author |   Email this entry

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-- "Time for a Change'' (3-2001), photo collage by PETER TYTLA

(Peter Tytla, P.O. Box 43, East Lyme, Conn 06333; phone (860) 739-7105; petertytla@sbcglobal.net)

This scene to me is a vivid tableau of some of the funny, sad, and, of course, bizarre aspects of New England rural life, away from the homes of the summer people and skiiers, off the backroads, and reminds me -- probably unfairly -- of a Russell Banks or Richard Russo novel. Or characters just offstage in Peyton Place.

New England's sometimes Arctic Appalachia.

I have driven by scenes not that different from this, including the balloons, though not the fugitive female.


Mr. Tytla's many brilliant photo collages, many of them of New England scenes, present images that mix observations on consumerism, poverty, natural beauty, building materials and sex (sort of) -- including auto-eroticism -- as in lust for a Studebaker.

Ethan Frome, sadly, never had this much fun.

Here's is Mr. Tytla's commentary on this picto-drama:


Tina, the farmer's daughter, has had enough of rural farm life, and has decided that it's time for a change. She went to town, purchased some new red, hot undies, a red--hot roadster, and is about to leave the old homestead for greener pastures with more excitement and fun.

Her father and Uncle John look on with utter bewilderment...what the heck is she up to now? CARS: 26 Buick, 32 Nash, 35 Studebaker, 35 Mercedes 500k Special Roadster; also two tractors (1 Ford, 1 Farmall) and misc. farm equipment. ANIMALS: 1 horse, 3 cows, 1 llama, 1 deer, 1 goat, 1 chicken, 1 duck, 2 cats, 3 kittens, 1 dog, 5 birds, 2 wild turkeys, 1 Canada goose. MISC: 13 hot air balloons, 1 pedal tractor

EMBLEMS: Nash, Studebaker

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