2013 | Studio City, California
We chose this house for its bones and for the sturdy eighty-year-old stucco over steel mesh which held it safe through the many quakes including the big ones in 1971 and 1994, and for the animated sidewalks with little kids riding their tricycles. But we could not quite guess who had chosen these colors, or who had applied them, though when we put up a calendar in the tiny dining room which was a refuge from the remodeling and a sort of field office, they began to make sense only after I had made this picture during a short break from plans and permits.
So it’s true that photographs can be time-release capsules of meaning.
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