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evidence of destruction
I realize that a fire isn’t something to be happy about.
But what did make me happy was the way the shape of the fire shows on the wall and the way the flames left a heat map behind. (I am also exceedingly fond of that random concrete block on the top of the building.)
Hope, New Mexico
photographed 7.4.2023
in storage
There’d been a fire at this building. And now, for some reason, it’s being used to store used office furniture. It was weird and surreal in the way that of course will cause me to stop and make approximately All The Photos before getting back on the road.
Hope, New Mexico
photographed 7.4.2023
through view
I went to Slaton to get cookies at the 100-year-old Slaton Bakery. (You cannot find better thumbprint cookies anywhere on the planet.) And, while I was there I took a few photos.
Or I went to Slaton to take photos. And while I was there I treated myself to some cookies at the bakery.
Either way, it worked out nicely.
Slaton, Texas
photographed 6.23.2023
trailers (now deceased)
There isn’t a whole lot going on in Montoya, New Mexico, at the current time. Unless you count the abandonment of buildings and trailers, and then there is a lot happening. (But the pace at which things happen is quite slow.)
Montoya, New Mexico
photographed 5.29.2022
despair has its own rhythm
Every single thing here just looks like despair – the weeds are closing in on the building; most of the windows are boarded up; that porch roof is wavy and collapsing; there’s an abandoned car out back; the stucco is working hard to fall away from the walls. And there are signs telling us that adobe is political.
Marfa, Texas
photographed 1.15.2023
One Day | One Image 