The Circle Game

I See Circles Everywhere On My Camera Roll

“Bomberos and Paris” — Image by Author

And the seasons, they go round and round, in the circle game. — Joni Mitchell

Looking back through my Oaxaca camera roll, I am reminded of my attraction to circles. Many are oblique circles. I avoided those for this story. Though they are most predominate in my many images from Oaxaca.

Here I wanted to only include circles in a straight on view. I wanted to show, true circles. Or at least, close to true circles. There are a few that stretch the definition. In these cases, it is the context that feels right.

The image above is a combination of both. Bomberos translates as ‘firemen’. And I wonder what Mexican ‘firemen’ have to do with Paris? Must be a Oaxaca thing. I’m still scratching my head on this one.

“Connections In The Round” — Image by Author

Many of the circles I have photographed are of some form of containers for electrical connections. These are connections that power this city.

What I find odd is, I typically think of power as linear, going from point to point. Yet the connections that allow this linear power to move from place to place, are most often housed in circles. Don’t ask me…