City Daily Photo Theme Day: Stripes

 The first day of each month is a theme day for members of City Daily Photo. For April, that theme is Stripes. Check out how others are interpreting this theme right here.

I start in an office building downtown. I was passing through one day, and noticed the pattern on these columns with LED screens on the ground floor.

At Lansdowne one day, I attended a PWHL game. An oversized hockey helmet had been created out of hockey sticks- and the stripe pattern caught my eye.

Stripes of another kind. These icicles hung down, side by side, from the roof of the Aberdeen Pavilion.

After finishing a night walk on the Rideau Canal in February, I came closer to the Ottawa Convention Centre. The pattern of steel framing the glass reminded me of stripes. As did the wood panel inside- horizontal stripe after stripe.

Nearby, stripes on the overhead entranceway of a hotel also qualified.

This one is from the archives, taken in 2017, but thoroughly appropriate. Morning Star by Alex Janvier is a large mural on the ceiling in the Canadian Museum of History.  Its third segment consists of stripes of multiple colours pointing inwards to the central segment.

Passing by a shop in February, I noticed a group of stuffed Garfields in the window- cartoon stripes and all.

I took these in early March. The south stands of the stadium at Lansdowne Park includes an exterior screen of wooden beams climbing up and becoming a shell of sorts, with a pathway between the screen and the stadium itself. The parallel beams have the effect of stripes to the eye.

And finally, from the series I'm currently doing here on a recent visit to the National Gallery of Canada, this is Voice of Fire, a 1967 painting by Barnett Newman. It attracted much controversy when it was added to the collection in the 80s because of the price, and has skyrocketed in value for some inexplicable reason. 

This isn't art. 

This is three big stripes on a big canvas. 

I could paint that.