Spreading the net to catch the sky

—Screenshots from the video for the song “Atlas Hands” by Benjamin Francis Leftwich: 

The Chinese fishing nets (Cheena vala) found at Kochi in India are an unusual method of fishing. Huge mechanical contrivances hold out horizontal nets of 20 m or more across. The nets are dipped into the water and raised again, but otherwise cannot be moved.

spider net on Flickr.

cast your nets upon the grass

Frank Meadow Sutcliffe: Fishing nets drying at Whitby Harbour, c 1905.

Nets drying on seawall (Okinawa)