In the progress of its philosophizing the
human spirit is ever more inclined to regard the absolute which it contemplates as having been produced by itself, the spirit that thinks it: «Until, finally, all that is over against us, everything that accosts us and
takes possession of us, all partnership of existence, is dissolved in free - floating
subjectivity.»
«Ruff
takes it a step further by radically changing his subject matter every few years, working in opoosition to the Bechers» long - term, single - minded devotion to the specific project of recoding decaying structures (blast furnaces, foundries, derricks, etc.) at the end of the ndustrial age... And in the case of Struth, he diverges from the Bechers most notieceably in terms of his interest in
human subjectivity.