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(Everything but) the kitchen sink
Parts of Marfa are all artsy and so forth, with foundations and public radio and famous food trucks and quirky lodging.
But then, on the other side of town, it’s sort of a different story, with old adobe houses slowly melting away. This place was cleaned out, with only the kitchen sink remaining behind to oversee the house’s death.
Marfa, Texas
photographed 8.16.2014
Varying materials
There’s a lot going on with this place. The one open window, the three boarded-up ones. The bigger openings of different heights. The adobe blocks peeking through the stucco. The new construction on the right side. One big crack. Some smaller ones.
And the chairs. Don’t forget the chairs.
Marfa, Texas
photographed 1.18.2013
Sometimes the light
Sometimes the light just hands you a gift.
The morning had been overcast, but just as we got to this building, the sun broke through and…this happened.
Marfa, Texas
photographed 8.31.2008
One day a few months, one of my photographer pals phoned me up and encouraged me to take a particular class at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops; that’s where I am this week. Because of that, it will probably take me a while to respond to your comments. But I will get to them.
Use next door
When you go to Marfa, and if you find the Food Shark, and if after you’ve had lunch there you walk down the street that’s right there on the south side of the train tracks, you might catch this place, with its instructional sign and nice reflection of what the other side of town looks like.*
Marfa, Texas
photographed 1.18.2013
*My question is this: do you think, given the evidence presented, that four commas are too many in one sentence, or am I being too sensitive, or what?**
**Damn it. I did it again.
The verticals
Mostly the landscape in this part of Texas is horizontal, with long, broad horizons. So it was an interesting change to find this nice vertical element right there in downtown Marfa.
Marfa, Texas
photographed 1.18.2013
One Day | One Image 