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From a broken home, 2
Here’s a closer – and sadder – view of that sofa from yesterday’s post.
It wasn’t just the sofa: the sculpted carpet, long out of fashion, and the fireplace and the plastic wallboard all contributed to the sadness of the place.
New Deal, Texas
photographed 2.12.2016
From a broken home, 1
It was the sofa.
I often see these double-wide mobile homes being transported down the road, with the white wrapping on the inside side pulled tight. When I see them that way, they are just part of someone’s house being hauled someplace new. This one, moored beside a narrow road, was different from the beginning, with strips of plastic flapping slowly in the breeze.
But it was seeing that sofa, stuck in a half-living-room, that put it on a human scale.
New Deal, Texas
photographed 2.12.2016
One Day | One Image 