Cleaning.. that hard job

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Projecting myself into this image leaves me cold and feeling isolated. Partly because I dislike housework / cleaning with a passion, partly due to the fact that these people earn a pittance in most countries and work difficult hours.

Her body language tells me that times have been better, though there's the coping mien displayed - it's this or nothing is pretty much what I believe she could be saying to herself.

That the cleaner alone is in the frame highlights the loneliness of this form of drudgery to me. I do however accept that there might be many cleaners out there who enjoy their work, I just haven't met any.

It feels sad, the dull lighting even underlines that feeling; I think you've captured the mood very well.

I'll echo Seven' reflections. It's a sad picture. Physical work, especially when you're not very young, is an unhappy lot. "Cleaning...that hard job." - not funny at all. I'd put it even more generally, as "Housework...that hard job." And I know why this work is so heavily advertised and praised. Because there're no servants any more and still somebody has to do this work. Who? Mainly our beloved ladies, of course. In the name of the so called "family virtues", but if truth, we (the society) force them to do this hidden, unpleasant and underpaid physical work. O.K., it's not always so, and it's not exactly so, but it's some kind of travesty, isn't it? Regards. Blago

very beautiful shot! cla