Concerning Formalism, Entry #3
Only the rusty hardware in our foreground — fastened to a rail along the Wisteria Canal near Mexicali — saves this image from a colorful but still sterile formalism. The implements have a zoological quality, almost-alive robot animals with their snouts held at differing angles, seeming to express various (imputed) personal attitudes. We find them in a pattern of 3 with 3 parallel pipes entering from above on perpendiculars. Three is a magic number in photography with implications beyond the superficial.
