I loved Metro Bus Shelter...To read the quotation attached was powerful. Seeing the image invoked the feeling of how close Yetta was to a building in which she could have gotten shelter. Also powerful to me was the image of The Former Bryant's Grocery, Money, Mississippi. I grew up in the south and have seen so many buildings like this, abandoned grocery marts. In fact, there is one not too far from the house I grew up in. I could tell stories about that place when it was still in business. There are even similar stories to the one related to the Bryant's Grocery.
My favorite reading was the website for the Invincible Cities Project. I love how in the Harlem photos, the Grocery Candy Smoke Shop was in business for 10 years! The images of Camden, NJ made me think of the movie "District 9". The houses or buildings were so close together and not in good condition. It looked like the alien district camps from the film that were over-crowded and dirty.
In "Homeplace", I thought of how restless I get living in the same place after a period of time. For me it's because I feel bored. But is it boredom of the same landscapes? I fall into the category of people that will live somewhere and then move on. However, I've only lived in 3 states, the majority of my life in 1. And although I've move from house/apartment to another in Utah County, the landscape is still the same. In this way, am I trying to belong to this landscape?
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