Wrestlers: art house / roadhouse
Conflict 01/#2: Plus ça change
Hard to imagine two more different venues: a roadhouse in hardscrabble Williamstown, VT, and a tapestry wall in the Louvre, Paris. But there they were, guys in similar positions, if different ages and outfits (or lack thereof) wrestling away. Grab a beer or a Beaujolais and pull up a seat. If you gotta have conflict, this is a good way to go.
Note: I had thought of yesterday’s Happy 4th post as an interruption in the week’s Conflict theme, but in fact, the US was born and baked in war. Comparisons of the US vs. Canadian “national character” and their divergent approaches to such issues as guns and imperialism draw much from America’s violent origin story. So, although the Revolution is generally taught in our schools and hailed by our politicians as an unmitigated good for the world, reality is less simple.
The two wrestlers appear to be calmly floating in a gravity-free zone. I'm really enjoying your Opposables, Terry. So many evocative images and pairings, and it feels like you've found your way into it, that the writing/choices have become a very natural form of expression.
Hmm. I grew up in Williamstown and never thought of it as hardscrabble, even then, and certainly don't now. Of course as a kid, we didn't know how poor we were. "Red" soup 3 times a day because my dad was in school on the GI Bill, seemed normal. Red because it had beets in the vegetable soup my Grandma canned for us. Amazing photo... everyone airborne, and the bored woman resting her head on the platform. That would be me if I was forced to go to that "show".