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Line & detail

The long arc of squiggles and lines as early man learned how to communicate

You are read­ing this on a device pow­ered by a micro-processor, ren­dered by photo-electric diodes, built from bits and bytes. You are pro­cess­ing the sig­ni­fier of each let­ter in its encoded mean­ing through each word, and cumu­la­tively, through the com­bi­na­tion of words that appear on the screen. The con­tract between you and I is that […]

Photograph: “Smile”

From Pictorymag.com. Urban use, dis­use and decay from Detroit. Build­ings have a con­tex­tual iden­tity when they are in use, even when they are dete­ri­o­rat­ing. They take on a mea­sure of human intent. When build­ings are dis­man­tled, they lose their iden­tity, becom­ing as ran­dom as any nat­ural encounter. The jux­ta­po­si­tion of use, dis­use and decay creates […]