Monthly Archives: December 2017
Tessellation (missing)
Some of the buildings that used to house the motel are down to the slab now, but the floor tile in the bathrooms is still in place.
This is the floor from two different bathrooms, with a gap where the wall used to be. But it reminded me of M. C. Esher’s drawing of geese transforming themselves into fish, so in my mind*, that gap was the space where hexagons transformed into rectangles.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 12.2.2017
*Yes, it’s weird in there.
Window/Frame
Let’s finish out the year with a photographic trip to the Cliffhouse Project, right here in Lubbock. It’s an abandoned restaurant and motor lodge. It’s also the site of a very cool development project that will reuse the buildings that are already there, provide an organic urban garden and opportunities to create art, and is already hosting various pop-up art events. (Like this one.)
My friend, and fellow photographer, Liz McCue was in town the other weekend and we took a trip over the to Cliffhouse; I’d say between us, we probably made a few hundred images – and I’m sure we didn’t even find the coolest stuff yet.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 12.2.2017
Crooked Letter
That S has been lying down on the job for years, but at this point, I’d be disappointed if it got fixed…
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 12.2.2017
Football was on her mind
Multitasking was the deal that night. I stopped at the bar at the Holland Hotel, where I was able to get a window table. While I enjoyed a drink and dinner, I made a series of images of pedestrians. Yes! Three things at once.
But, as you could have predicted, doing all that stuff at once is a guarantee that at least one of them is probably not going to be all that successful. And this is the only pedestrian photo I liked. But I like it at a lot because of the way the TV’s reflection landed on the woman’s head.
Alpine, Texas
photographed 11.3.2017
Catholic Life
I like to see what sorts of things are at the back of churches, which goes along with how I like to look around the backs of things: the mundane parts of things are attractive.
In this case, I hit a double jackpot – a hand-lettered cardboard box and someone’s left-behind sparkly sunglasses!
Church of the Visitation
Westphalia, Texas
photographed 11.25.2017
One Day | One Image 