The moodiness of the sky is most immediately striking in this image. The eye is immediately drawn to the slant of the plane, wondering whether this is the orientation of the frame or the ground itself.
This image is interesting in how the subject seems to constantly vacillate between the two figures in the foreground of the frame, the soil, and the intense sky. The image does not immediately evoke "climate change" without the textual prompt, but the viewer certainly gets the sense that the human subjects in the photograph have been living with/in this environment in the ways their focus is not fixated on the intensity of the sky in the same way the viewer is.
I feel the work with affectual plains is very strong. This piece enacts a certain affectual swirl that anyone who has felt a strom coming will know well. This photo has bodily and sensorial information certainly, in the facial expressions as well as what appears to be a quickened pace in the strides of Pancha and Chon. The photo brings a sense of movement, temperature, and thought. The open and freshly-tilled soil suggests a certain precarity. We think about labor and bodily ways of knowing the land. We consider the farmer's relationship with weather, land, and environemnt.
