jolie laide

jolie laide

I started this when I lived in Brooklyn and struggled for grace in a city that grants moments of beauty and ugliness breathtakingly close to one another. Now I live in a place where things are a different kind of ugly and the beauty is pedestrian. I struggle with that.

7.24.2007


I'm sorry I was late, coming home from work. The construction lamps in the subway tunnel were just so beautiful. I stared so their blurry stars could light my eyes. Then I carried them home in my chest so I could give them to you.

2 Comments:

Blogger Miscellanie said...

Oh! I love these, too.

2:45 PM  
Blogger ttractor said...

yay! for some reason they made me think of William Carlos Williams and his forbidden plums. and made me wish for a better camera.

5:31 PM  

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