Still Life With Squirt Bottle

We found Manuel Salcero at the end of a skinny alleyway that, frankly, should never have held a distillery. Manuel is a metalworker, engineer and distiller – he adapts his own stills, designs the retorts, welds his fermentation tanks, modifies the diesel chopper that unrelentingly hacks at the agave right next to the smoking pyramidal horno out front. While we waited inside his workshop-distillery, he and his team were just finishing their lunch right there beside the stills. A balloon from his daughter’s quinceañera floated idly against the wall opposite. Beside me, a perfect still life just lying in wait: Manuel’s fermentation room, seen through a glassless window cut directly into the block wall – a romance of sharp edges and soft light, of circles and more circles caught in a square frame of square stones; a poem washed in river green and steel grey stained ivory. Each photograph is printed on archival Hahnemülle Photo-Rag stock, giving them an earthed, almost painterly feel and incredible longevity. The border is printed, making them easy to hang either floated or with a window mount in frame-ready sizes. They are signed and numbered. And the price includes free postage within the UK, Europe or the USA. 50×40cm Unframed Giclée print on Hahnemülle Photo-Rag paper Edition of 8 Signed by the artist Free postage to UK/Europe/USA