Vegetable Locomotion

I'm in Minneapolis now and today was my first day doing research at the Walker. It was a wonderful day, everyone was very helpful and there are all these neat rooms tucked away inside the building. I looked through the Walker's correspondence with Hollis Frampton, listened to a talk he gave after a retrospective of his films in 1972 and looked at some prints of his photographs. Above are two from his series titled "Sixteen Studies from Vegetable Locomotion", in fact a collaboration with artist Marion Faller. It's sort of a Muybridge joke and made me break into laughter often. These two were my favorites, called "Summer squash undergoing surgery (var. "Yellow Straightneck")" and "Beets Assembling (var. "Detroit Dark Red")".