Drying For My Art

I think it’s pretty obvious what I was aiming for with this artistic shot…um, and that is the similarity between writing a book and hanging out your laundry. If you don’t grasp it, I can’t help you. It’s something you either get or you don’t.

As with most things I think about, talk about or blog about these days, my first port of call was to google it. “Washing line”, I typed in. I was hoping for a nice article that instantly justified my random pegging of books. There was Wikipedia, calling out to me with its seedy reputation for loose facts. I clicked on it expecting to find something pretty straightforward like: a piece of cord stretched from one point to the other upon which clothes are hung out to dry. See also: clothes line. The End. But actually there’s a rather in depth article about how controversial washing lines are these days: “A variety of interests are invloved [sic] in the controversy about clothes lines, including: global warming, individual rights, the economy, private property, class, aesthetics, health, energy, national security and nostalgia.”

Who knew what a bold political statement I was making with my simple shot? Not even me.

Come back soon to see more photographic gems, and to find out which shot replaces those berries.