Fly Bag Obscura
A clear plastic bag of water has been hanging in the window since summer. Tied with a shoe string it hangs on the remaining hardware of a forgotten curtain rod. The bag of water is a fly bag. It’s supposed to keep the flies away. Kind of looks like a Christmas ornament.
Fly bags may or may not work. One hypothesis of why a fly bag works is about what the fly perceives. Is it a body of water? What is that body of water? Stay away from the body of water. Another hypothesis is that light refracts through the bag of water disorienting the fly. The fly bag is a something that is un-process able for the thousands of tiny eyes. The flies` eyes don`t know why.
The polyethylene is stretched tight and sags with the weight of the water. This creates an imposable lens to the world. The fly bag in the window offers an obscured view of the neighbors. Carbon and hydrogen linked to make polyethylene molecule. Glaciers melting fill reservoirs with water piped to city taps.
How does the fly bag look like a Christmas ornament?
Who has flies this time of year?
Happy Holidays