Infrastructure 20090807

Beautiful summer holidays this year in Ontario, Quebec and the homeland, Saskatchewan. Happening upon The National Gallery of Canada's Canadian collection in Ottawa on Canada Day was a sublime, unexpected joy. The oil studies by Tom Thomson are sumptuous. At McNally Robinson in Saskatoon, I was reminded of the blanket statements of the great Bob Boyer when I stumbled across a gorgeous book by the artist entitled Powwow. Boyer's painted blankets, holding paint as deep as the blanket will allow, speak of spiritual calm, heritage and betrayal. They are a real inspiration for these infrastructure blankets.

Is perhaps the infrastructure we develop a direct extension of our physical needs, as illustrated here? Perhaps the body drives and builds infrastructure.