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Church window
You might have known I couldn’t get too far into the new year before I posted a picture of Marfa. After all, in 2013, I posted more pictures from Marfa than I did from the city where I live.
This window is on the east side of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. The building dates from 1929, when it was relocated to make way for the Paisano Hotel. The church’s veneer is river rock, but the church website doesn’t explain where, exactly, how this many river rocks were moved to the desert, or why the architect selected them as a building material in the first place.
Marfa, Texas
photographed 9.5.2009
María de Jesús
María de Jesús: that was the name on this roadside cross.
The road is straight here as it crosses the narrow plain between mountain ranges. I was lulled by the post-post-post rhythm of the fence. Post. Post. Post. All straight, all evenly spaced. Until this one, the broken one, with the jagged end pointing directly toward María’s cross.
I’d never have seen it otherwise.
near Marfa, Texas
photographed 2005
Sometimes the reason is different than you think
I thought I was taking this photo because of all those lovely rectangles in the windows.
I don’t mind being wrong: when I looked at the photo, I thought I’d taken it because of what looks like an art gallery in the room beyond the windows.
I still don’t mind being wrong: after I looked at it some more, I realized that I’d taken it because of the different glass in the windows and the way the light’s reflected differently across the bank of windows. Some of it’s wavy, some of it distorts the reflection, some of it looks like there’s not even glass there at all.
some random alley
Marfa, Texas
photographed 1.18.2013
The ice plant: interior
Remember the ice plant? Were you wondering what the inside of it looked like?
Well, here it is – at least the part of it that I could shoot through the one window that was low enough to see through. Of course, now that you can see the machinery, I am sure that you understand perfectly the process involved in making ice. Right?
Marfa, Texas
photographed 8.16.2013
The other side of town
Most anyone who’s ever heard of Marfa, Texas, will have heard of it as an artist’s town.
So, of course there’s all the stuff related to the Chinati Foundation. And the Food Shark. And the smallest NPR station in the country.
But then, there’s also this scene.
Marfa, Texas
photographed 1.18.2013
One Day | One Image 