32. PASSAGES. Inner Harbor, Baltimore. Pleasure craft in the foreground, cranes and the remnants of a thriving shipbuilding industry in the background. Pittsburgh and Baltimore are the cities in the Eastern USA that wear their industrial past and newfound optimism well. The intersection of old and new can create quality of life.
31. PASSAGES. Baltimore. Baltimore is visually complex, but also an unusual crossroads: not quite the South, but not Northeastern either; a heavy industry town busy reinventing itself, but also a nautical culture (Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the US). It was once the second leading port of entry for immigrants, and is one of only 41 independent cities in the USA. Possibly the most interesting (and maligned) city on the East Coast.
30. PASSAGES. Baltimore. The ghost town found a few steps from Johns Hopkins Hospital. One of the oddest places on the planet.
29. PASSAGES. Baltimore. An adorable city that has some epic dead zones.
28. PASSAGES. Alice Beach, Saskatchewan. A pack of coyotes resides in the field in the background. They provide a choral performance each evening.
27. PASSAGES. Last Mountain Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada. “Hard to be an atheist” is the thought that comes to mind.
26. PASSAGES. Highway 2, near the village of Holdfast, Saskatchewan. Moments after a rainstorm.
25. PASSAGES. Highway 2, near the village of Holdfast, Saskatchewan. If you enjoy light, Saskatchewan ranks with anywhere famous for it (the Mediterranean Sea comes to mind, as does northern Israel). A landscape painters dream.
24. PASSAGES. Saskatoon, Canada. They call it “the land of living skies”. Taken on a lousy cell phone camera, which gives an analog, may one say “painterly” effect? Lo-fi recording devices at times prove the old saw that “style is the art of omission.”
23. PASSAGES. Last Mountain Lake, Canada.
22. PASSAGES. Saskatoon, Canada. One of the great small cities of the world, partly due to its setting (at a place the Cree people called Saskatchewan, or “swift flowing river”).
21. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Harlem. Stillness and sky, two things in short supply in Manhattan.
20. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Mott Haven, The Bronx. Sidewalk life on a warm evening in the Boogie Down. Some parts of The Bronx feel like a small town.
19. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Harlem River. Looking west, The Bronx on the right, Harlem on the left, New Jersey in the deep background.
18. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Williamsburg Bridge. The bridges of New York are themselves works of art.
17. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Hunters Point, Queens. There is no end of unusual visual structures in this city–probably its greatest joy. The Queensboro Bridge is in the background.
16. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn. “Beauty is but a slow decay.” -BD White
15. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Greenpoint, Brooklyn. East River and Manhattan in the background, the smokestacks are the East River Generating Station in Alphabet City.
14. NEW YORK ON ON FOOT. Randall’s Island. Underneath the Triboro Bridge. If a concrete structure can be eerie, this might be it.
13. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Woodside, Queens. An elevated train platform. I am not sure a sculptor could do better.