The Circle Game

I See Circles Everywhere On My Camera Roll

Looking back through my Oaxaca camera roll, I am reminded of my attraction to circles. Many are oblique circles. I avoided those for this story. Though they are most predominate in my many images from Oaxaca.

Here I wanted to only include circles in a straight on view. I wanted to show, true circles. Or at least, close to true circles. There are a few that stretch the definition. In these cases, it is the context that feels right.

The image above is a combination of both. Bomberos translates as ‘firemen’. And I wonder what Mexican ‘firemen’ have to do with Paris? Must be a Oaxaca thing. I’m still scratching my head on this one.

Many of the circles I have photographed are of some form of containers for electrical connections. These are connections that power this city.

What I find odd is, I typically think of power as linear, going from point to point. Yet the connections that allow this linear power to move from place to place, are most often housed in circles. Don’t ask me. This is just my observation.

And then there are the tires and wheels. Again I tried to avoid the wheels in this story. They are most often spoked, which visually distracts from the pure circles.

When they are not spoked, they are most often solid, at least in one way or another. Either way they distract from the concept of circle. Perhaps I am being a bit rigid in my definitions, and interpretations. It wouldn’t be the first time.

I know, I know, these circles flirt with the oblique. Saxophones always get a pass from me. I love them, and the sounds they make, far too much to…

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