Hmm!  It was another hideous week, and there are lots of very dark thoughts.  I came upon an unattributed picture yesterday from Reuters on the BBC that pretty much sums it all up.  It shows two men intertwined and sleeping on a kind of disgusting bridge over a railroad station in Yangon (Rangoon) Myanmar.  They are covered in mosquito netting.  The disconcerting element for me, other than the desperateness of their lives, which is a little made up story in your mind, is the red floral pattern in the netting, which make the sheet look bloodied.

A year ago I posted about E. E. McCollum’s incredible “Cocoon Series.”  They are such gorgeous images, woven to tell a tale of rebirth, emergence, and resurrection.  In the Myanmar image we have the opposite effect where netting tells a tale of desperation, crucifixion, and death.  It is a very powerful image to my eye.