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at temple + main
I was standing near the corner of Temple Street and Main Street, which is as good a place as any to take a photo of an out-of-business church reflected in an out-of-business business.
Sudan, Texas
photographed 8.31.2025
the sacred heart
This feels like a Typical Western Image™, with the white church, set on the top of a dry hill, squinting into the afternoon sun, with nothing else around. And rendered in black and white.
But I took the photo anyway.
Nara Visa, New Mexico
photographed 8.31.2025
mt. olive
I was in Sudan (the town, not the country) the other Sunday morning. This church seems to be abandoned, but there was some preachin’ going on a block away in the town square. It was echoey and I couldn’t make out words but I knew it was a sermon from the cadence of it.
Oh, and also, I’d already driven by and seen it.
Sudan, Texas
photographed 8.31.2025
makeshift
You can tell it’s cattle country when you go in a church and see a stock tank that’s been repurposed to serve as a altar. (A question: do you think the pastor takes Jesus and stuff off the altar, turns it over, and fills it with water so it can be used for baptisms? Or for thirsty church-cows?)
Nara Visa, New Mexico
photographed 8.31.2025
Mondrian goes to church
I believe it is possible that renowned Dutch artist Peet Mondrian (1872-1944) attended church in Nara Visa, New Mexico. Or least helped out with the windows.
Nara Visa, New Mexico
photographed 8.31.2025
One Day | One Image 