Dispatch № 112: Documenting Silence

I don’t know what they will build here, only that it will be different, and that I want to see what I can see here while I still can.

Dispatch № 111: Local Evolution

I can think of at least a dozen nearby houses and other structures that have been demolished within the last few months.

Dispatch № 81: Capsule Elegy

Few buildings ever manage to command such remarkable presence, and many that do lose their edge as the rest of architecture catches up around them.

Dispatch № 73: Zones

My old apartment was simple in this way. Leave your shoes at the door and that’s it. No other changes to make

Dispatch № 71: Troublesome Gaps

While it is entirely possible that, by the time we visit again, new buildings and businesses will occupy those spaces, it is also possible that they will remain empty for a long while.

Dispatch № 52: Abandoned

They are often easy to identify, especially those drowning in vegetation. This is particularly true of those engulfed in the same infamous kudzu that is so reviled in the American South. Whole properties disappear under draped green carpets.

Dispatch № 41: An Impossible House by the Sea

There is a derelict house in my old neighborhood that surfaces in my dreams now and then. In reality, it is in Tokyo, boarded up and sitting behind a yard overgrown with tall grass.

Dispatch № 33: Keeping Contained

The netting may be loosely draped or cinched up tight. It depends on the building. The effect of the former is not unlike a veil, while the latter suggests something more like a corset. In either case, the purpose is the same: to prevent problems caused by falling debris.