White Poles

aOne of Frances' sisters recently visited the ranch.  As a small project she and Frances painted a couple of whites poles that were laying around the place.  Here is the production process.  Note that it is a little more 'plein aire' than the place where Blue Poles was created.

It took a while to complete the second pole and then we had to wait for dry weather to install them.  So here is (a zoomed and cropped) view from my study window.

 We finish with two versions of a close up of the poles.  The second includes the model for the stencils, caught somewhat in flagrante, but it was the only time she was stationary!

On the morning of 24 November I looked up to see a couple of 'roos engaged in robust discussion close to the poles.  Although the following image is not good quality it is a fair impression of the event, which could probably only happen in Australia!

Early in 2011 another pair of roos turned up in view and in a more studious manner:

I tried to get an image of them also inspecting the canine silhouettes but they saw me coming and shot through.

In answer to Mary's comment below, the short is answer is "no function other than the process of creation and looking good".  It is a continuation of the idea started in an earlier post which I must update to show how things developed (and/or degraded) over time.  The decision as to where to put them was driven by several factors:

1. they needed to be visible from the house;
2. they had to stand out from the white Eucalyptus mannifera trees in the background; and
3. there had to be enough soil (as opposed to shale) to allow me to dig the holes.