Men at work

The headline photo was taken yesterday, but it failed to make the cut. On my ride today, I saw some Utah linesmen at work and decided on a tribute to people—men, women, and those who choose a different gender identity—who do the physical work that supports us all. The photo of the men pouring concrete is not on a par with with the Ford Madox Brown composition for his Pre-Rapaelite Work masterpiece. Then again, it didn't take me thirteen years to finish my work.

There are two versions of Work (Manchester, the original, and Birmingham, a later and smaller copy) and on Wikipedia their reproduction coloration is quite different. I suspect that the yellow/green cast seen in the reproduction of the work in the Manchester City Art Gallery collection (viewable at the previous two links above) may have been introduced by the photographic process. There is a third reproduction of the painting that more closely matches the reproduction coloration of the painting in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery collection.

The two-man microlite seen in yesterday's gallery was flying again today. Some might cavil at the inclusion of a recreational vehicle in a post that purports to be about work. My own thinking was that it might be a training machine and that would mean that at least one of the crew members was working, albeit not the kind of physical work being undertaken by the others.

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