Twisted -- Reflection


I was walking to my favorite Thai restaurant near the Courthouse (Bangkok Kitchen) and I cut across the parking lot at the Scoular Grain Building. They were beginning to rip up infrastructure to rework the area between Scoular and one of my old haunts, the 24th and Dodge Office Building, and I saw a pile of rebar that had been ripped out of some concrete curbing. It gave the perfect lesson on composition.

Industrial waste and ugliness became the foreground. A partially obliterated sign ("Pri Parking") took up the middle ground. Signs, permissions, rules, guidelines. And natural beauty -- though in the form of highly cultivated bushes, became the background. All it would have taken for me to change the picture -- and the point of this Senryu -- would have been to take the photograph from behind the bushes.

Reflection Points: This PhotoSinryu invites us to look at the ugliness that confronts us, some days more and some days less, and to determine where we are going to put it. Will it be in the foreground of our minds? The middleground? Or the background? And what difference does it make?

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