Beyond

28 days, towards 2010

5.26.07 National Seashore Edge, Wellfleet, MA



5.22.07 Day 1 of Urban Composting


5.22.07 Waiting for the hot water to arrive to the 4th floor


"Following dream waters upstream, the historian will learn to distinguish the vast register of their voices. As his ear is attuned to the music of deep waters, he will hear a discordant sound that is foreign to waters, that reverberates through the plumbing of modern cities. He will recognize that the H20 which gurgles through Dallas plumbing is not water, but a stuff which industrial society creates. He will realize that the twentieth century has transmogrified water into a fluid with which archetypal waters cannot be mixed."
-Ivan Illich, H2o and the Waters of Forgetfullness

5.17.07
"There are moments in history when a crack in time seems to open and swallow the known world:
solid-seeming institutions, rotted from within, collapse or are discarded;
settled beliefs are unsettled;
old truths are discovered to be provisional;
acts that were forbidden are permitted or even required;
boundaries thought impassable are passed without comment;
and outrageous and unreal events, seeming to belong more to comic books than to reality, flood in profusion from some portal of the future that no one was guarding or even watching. . . .
Bold authors step in to set up the architecture of the future, or, far more likely, unexpected shocks, often violent, cut short deliberation to dictate the shapes of things to come.

These are times that call for exceptional vigilance, because what is at stake is not just who will win and who will lose but the rules by which everyone will have to play from then on.
What is decided then, whether by accident or design, will be decided for a long time; what is founded then will endure; and what disappears then will likely be gone forever."
--Johathan Schell, "Why War is Futile," Harpers v.306, n.1834, March, 2003

5.12.07 Brooklyn, NY
towards 2010


urban land art, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY


cliff dwellers, Brooklyn, NY

red rock