Hoses in Poses

February 24, 2012

The first roll of film that I shot with an adjustable camera (a pre-1970 Zeiss-Ikon Rangefinder) included photographs of the garden hose coiled up in back of my house. Decades later, I’m still photographing hoses. I found the first three in Cortez, a fishing village north of Sarasota, last month. The first photograph is distorted because it’s of a reflection in the polished-metal back door of a refrigerated truck. That hose and the next two were in front of a fish-processing plant. I took the fourth photograph in the same place two years ago. The hoses in the fifth and sixth photos were in Sarasota, on Main Street during this year’s Thunder by the Bay motorcycle rally and last year at the bay-front marina.