Monday, June 04, 2007

Art at Your Feet III

In keeping with our Barnyard Animals on Utility Hatches theme, take a gander at these three geese I found in front of a shop on 16th Street in the Mission. I'm not sure what they are trying to tell me. Are geese—like their pastoral compatriots, the sheep—natural followers? Do they need a measure of goading to be their own geese, as it were? I wouldn't have thought so. Certainly, the noble up-tilt of their heads on those long, straight necks suggests a certain level of innate uppitiness. Is this, perhaps, an anti-foie gras statement? Anyone? Anyone?