Jeanne Liotta

SILO (With Coffee Ring). This photo has been hanging in my apt in NYC since 1986.  It was an offhand gift from a friend of a friend, visiting New York for the first time from the exotic land of Iowa. This mysterious little square just kicked around the kitchen table for a few weeks minding its own business, until I taped it to the empty frame and hung it up– I suppose I just wanted to keep looking at it’s foggy line and sad grays. I wasn’t really sure what a silo was, and why anyone would take a picture of it. It seemed like a forgotten message from an alien world.  I love it’s simplicity, and spaciousness, and dignity. After the Iowan left I noticed he had scrawled some lines on the back. “Haunted as a hedgerow, friendly as a mongoloid, your eyes straighten my spine and crack my teeth.”