cultural appropriation gone wrong
Category: architecture
ladder
standing seam
the same but different
deserted
galvanized steel origami
a venture in faith
Charlottesville’s Dream
the Quick and the Dead
day of rest
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Was it the Mount Vernon Motel? Is it supposed to look Jeffersonian? Who knows, gone now. As Wesley Morris says, our culture is trash.
I hope to never climb another ladder but until I can arrange the particulars, the ladder is my dangerous friend who introduces me to his/her’s amoral chum, gravity. 9.8 meters per second squared…
Up on Cel and Betty’s roof, in theory, cleaning the gutters, in practice looking at the immediate world.
Mensroom old Kohler cast iron lavatory, new American Standard commode, 1.28gpf
UVA. She blinked her eyes and everyone disappeared.
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bridge across the Rapidan north of Orange.
Crystal City Pentagon City. Parking underground, Whole Food’s attached, not affordable but otherwise Charlottesville’s dream.
Bellefontaine Cemetery. Opened in St. Louis 1850 with the thought that an out of town burying ground would reduce deaths from cholera (graveyard vapors thought to contribute to cholera). Went to visit great great granddad who died in STL in 1854 of Cholera.
Union Chapel, Woolen Mills neighborhood, Charlottesville VA
photography from the Chesapeake Bay watershed by Bill Emory