Shot log: 14 frames from Hwy 50 driving east below heavy gray sky, soft sun, breaks in the clouds. 1988 Minolta Maxxum 3000i, 70-210 lens. The early SLR function doesn’t know what to focus on when pointed at the sky. The color film may be more than ten years old. Came with camera.

“Having acquired his visual consciousness through the long-term observation of the shape of clouds, of the colour of the sky, of the air and so on, that form part of his work, the peasant is able to predict the weather. And so the peasant’s visual consciousness is none other than an extrapolation from the age-old labours of his class. The same visual sensations will say nothing to a man with a different model of visual consciousness, as he will be unable to capture this real truth.” (Strzemiński 35).

Quotations: Al Hansen, An Introspective. Galerie des Kölnischen Stadtmuseums 7 Sept. – 20 Okt. 1996; John Willis, Views from the Reservation. The Center for American Places at Columbia College, Chicago, 2010.