Shetland Yarn Machine

Hi - it's been a while. These pictures are from Shetland, Scotland. They are just off my PC without thought for order or quality - I just want to deposit them somehow. I love the blue and the industry and the shapes formed from the utility of the machine. 

Some little part of my brain is revived from thinking about angles and industry. Nice to feel it back.

Gursky

'Thebes, West' 1993

Andreas Gursky
Biog here: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/andreas-gursky-2349

There are some ongoing questions or queries that arise as I think about posting this:



* affinity - seeing connections and similarities; is this truthful or just the need to see myself in everything?

* Tate says: "Gursky uses a bird's-eye view to portray the collective behaviour of large social groups." I wonder about abstraction and distancing - the aerial, distancing, over views, seeing patterns and form, being far from the action.

* abstraction and the meditative, calmness, order. Still images, reflection, meditation, only by removing ourselves?

* the need to explain, a way to explain, using language to images, posting with language, how to passage from the production and the reception, packaging. Staying truthful to the intention. Telling you this.