A worthy child of a most interesting composition.. Can't help but notice a certain inversion or contrast in the photo. All those bricks on the shoulders of the brickman, emerging from an undefined ether,.. somehow making him even more solid and concrete.
Yes, to me it almost looks like he's standing under the bricks rather than carrying them, like their weight is nothing to him. Makes it all the more impressive. Thanks.
I wonder if the German brick laying world was similar to the one I knew. As a young man I carried brick and mortar to the brick layers. That was my job, to keep them supplied because a brick layer couldn't spend his precious time and energy mixing mortar and schlepping bricks up and down scaffolding. If I had to guess, I would say that fellow did my job.
A worthy child of a most interesting composition.. Can't help but notice a certain inversion or contrast in the photo. All those bricks on the shoulders of the brickman, emerging from an undefined ether,.. somehow making him even more solid and concrete.
Yes, to me it almost looks like he's standing under the bricks rather than carrying them, like their weight is nothing to him. Makes it all the more impressive. Thanks.
The Bricklayer photograph is incredible, semi haunting- I don’t know of his work. Great to read the attributed ekphrasis- nice work.
Thank you, Jenny! Yes, I was immediately struck by its intensity. Sander is a fascinating figure.
Fine poems that give tribute to workers, which the photos illustrate in their own way.
Yes, that was the aim. Thanks.
So good!
Thanks, Margaret!
I wonder if the German brick laying world was similar to the one I knew. As a young man I carried brick and mortar to the brick layers. That was my job, to keep them supplied because a brick layer couldn't spend his precious time and energy mixing mortar and schlepping bricks up and down scaffolding. If I had to guess, I would say that fellow did my job.
Ah, very likely, I suppose. For the sake of my poem, I prefer to see him as the whole package. Thanks for your comment, Wes!