Hans Roenau: Pastoral Scene

Monday, March 24, 2008

You all deserve a respite. So here's a pastoral scene. This is the St. Vincent property, as seen from the Las Gallinas Sanitary District.

Ethan Bodle said...: I like this, in my own weird way, as usual. I like it because I feel the same pair of cows is repeated twice. And where you placed the repetition (towards the vanishing point) makes me feel like their are more of the same pair of cows on and on in the distance off-scene. And, then I feel like because the position (relative to each other) of the pair is slightly different in the distance one from the front one, that this is like two frames from a movie of the cows... a movie of the cows dancing with each other. It's like two frames from a Bovine Tango. In the Tango they keep their facial expressions under strict control. Here, the control is so good, it almost looks like they are completely uninterested in each other's presence... in fact, it looks as if they are too busy grazing to care. Of course this isn't true, because there they are in pairs, definitely a couple, definitely a Bovine Tango.; Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 7:28:00 AM PDT

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