
A Couple of Real Characters







Every time we think the frightfully loud building work outside our windows may be done, something new comes along.



Another image from September 2007. I don’t remember where exactly but looks like it might have been part of the ongoing series I was working on, The Burghers of Broadway.

Was it Stephen Shore who first started cataloguing American suburban commercial spaces? Whoever it was, was a genius. Since then it’s become a bit of a cliché as everyone’s piled into this space. Nevertheless, a short walk along route 70 this past weekend offered many such vistas, the empty parking lots and gray November sky capturing some of the feeling of vast emptiness this pandemic has created (to be fair, it was a Sunday).

If you’re going to step out on your spouse, you pest, best do it during the day, lest you get exterminated.





