Untitled digital photographs, 2012.
The close was almost exactly as she’d left it – neat suburban houses at the upper end of the property market – its pavements bathed in a soft sodium haze. A family car had been parked on a verge by the road directly under the street light, but apart from that there was no change. The close was still and lifeless as a stage set. It was when the stage-set beckoned her forward that she realised she was shaking. Ms Nobody had not eaten for at least eight hours. “I’m starving,” she said to the lamppost. “I’m ravenous,” she said to the street sign. Dunn Close it replied.
The Future Is Papier Mâché 
Cool image. Love the ghostly figures in the window (images 1 & 8). The dead bird is fascinating. Keep up the great work.
Thanks so much Mobius. The bird flew into the house last week, poor thing.
Nice pics!
Thanks! Your blog is going to become highly addictive – I love vintage furniture.
I hope 😉
Love the bird one as well -hope you aren’t superstitious:)
Ha ha, yes, I do have a tendency in that direction – not sure of the symbolism of the black bird though. Definitely some dark portent (and the basis for the set of photos).
The bird was very neatly positioned on the patio; it looked like an offering, which was quite odd. But it was intact so I don’t think an animal brought it. My best guess is that one of the upstairs windows got it.
I met a older artist once who had little squares of paper cut w/ rectangular strips (like you see ads w/ telephone numbers on them) on his windows – he lived in a beautiful house near a lake with huge glass windows – and the strips were to alert the birds to the glass.
Great set!
-b
Thanks b!
Eerie and elegant. Well paired with the text. I can’t help but hear the words sung by Tom Waits (like in “What’s He Building In There”)while a slideshow of your images plays behind him.
Wow, that’s quite a compliment, thanks very much!
Cool bird photo, but probably not so cool experience for the bird…
Thanks. Quick, though, I imagine.
This is one of the best photo sets I’ve seen: so disparate and yet they’re like a narrative. Is this text going to continue? I very much like your writing style and you manage to set the scene and atmosphere in just a few words? Great stuff.
Thank you! I’m really pleased the set works for you like that – I wanted to suggest a narrative, but with images that could be taken out of the context of the set and stand up on their own. The text is a snippet from a work in progress – a novel. It’s a very long way from completion, and I use bits of it in posts now and then.