Category: Cityscape
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Z | Jennings, LA | 2017 “Scarcely a day of my life has gone by when I’ve not stirred the alphabetical ant nest, yet every time I type or pen the letter Z, I still feel a secret tingle, a tiny thrill. Z is a whip crack of a letter, a striking viper of a…
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Steps | Seattle, WA | 2017 “Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are
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Grain Elevator | Wenatchee, WA | 2017 “Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It’s geometrically perfect. It’s tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a
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Shadows | Spokane, WA | 2018 On a lark, my Dad suggested that we have our auras cleansed. A poster for a New Orleans voodoo shop had touted “a better life, a better you” after just one incorporeal scrubbing. That night, we sat in folding chairs while a large woman with cascading black hair and…
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Exercise Ball | East Wenatchee, WA | 2017 I’m not even sure how an exercise ball works. Bounce it? Toss it? Roll it? It sits perfect and whole in the gym’s corner, cyclops eye unblinking, surrounded but unaffected by
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Angel | Spokane, WA | 2018 Forty-two years ago, before NYC’s Times Square was scrubbed clean of sex and drugs, I was exploring an adjacent alley when I heard footsteps behind me. Deep shadows, high walls, garbage everywhere: The alley was a no-man’s land where only a fool would stroll. But there I was, a…
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Old Truck | Waterville, WA | 2017 “As we go within the self, we discover that all the voices of our past lives are still there. As we peel ourselves, which is
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Hat | Rock Island, WA | 2017 Consider the hat. It protects the head, warms the scalp and, if rakishly applied, flatters the wearer. Underneath and inside, a brain percolates: judgments (burger or fish-n-chips?), concerns (will the waitress notice me?), memories (dog bounding at sunset on stormy beach). Now consider the hat’s loyal supporter —…
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Pool | Wenatchee, WA | 2017 The reflection of a metal heron caught my eye. The statue’s stillness amid storm clouds roiling on the pool’s surface sparked my curiosity. Is it possible to be
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Decoy | Wenatchee, WA | 2017 Wading through our culture’s digital swamp, we might not know exactly what’s real and what’s not. Just about everything has been processed: news tweaked, photos polished, experiences hyped. That’s why it’s important
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