We recently praised battered baking sheets for their utility and history in the kitchen, but photographer Christopher Jonassen takes it one step further, exploring the physical beauty to be found in the dings, scratches and scrapes of well-used frying pans.
GOOD Magazine interviewed the Norwegian-born photographer, who says he became interested in taking photos of cooking utensils while living in a shared house with a bunch of friends and a lot of banged-up kitchen tools: "It fascinated me to see how everyday life was wearing out the metal of the frying pans, one tiny scratch at a time."
It's no accident that the pans themselves resemble planets or other celestial objects; Jonassen says he is also looking to make the link between the small marks we create every day that add up to larger consequences over time.
• Read the interview: Christopher Jonassen's Celestial Frying Pans at GOOD
• See more photos: Devour at Christopher Jonassen's site
Do you see beauty in the well-used objects in your kitchen?
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I love this! There was some great stuff on his website and Flickr too. I liked the melting ice people:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopherjonassen/5014432834/in/photostream
So cool!!
I love this. As a dealer in quality vintage kitchen items, I appreciate someone else who recognizes that the scratches and marks can be seen as "love marks," not just scratches rendering an item unsuitable. I dare to guess those who get rid of their quality old pans to replace them with newer ones will come to regret it. If you like practical vintage kitchenwares, I'd love to have you visit my Etsy shop, LaurasLastDitch: http://www.etsy.com/shop/lauraslastditch
it looks like phases of the moon!
Great picture and cool concept, but I like the bottom of my pots to be as clean as the inside. I guess it comes from the old pots my parents had, they looked 100 yrs old, and I hated that the bottoms were so black!
I guess I don't care much for vintage in general. I bought myself new steel/aluminum? pots and even a cute little teapot that matched. Looks good in my modern loft-type kitchen.