“Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.”
― Banksy, Wall and Piece
Anti-Graffiti Rectangles
Richardson, Texas
It its infinite wisdom The Man fights graffiti here by painting giant rectangles of Pepto-Bismol Pink over the forbidden tags and symbols. I guess this is so your imagination can run wild thinking of what horrors must have been underneath.
“Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.”
― Mark Twain
“Losing faith is a complicated business and takes time. There are no epiphanies, no “moments of truth.” It takes much thought and concentration in the later phases, which thenselves come about through an accumulation of small accidents: examples of general injustice, misfortune falling upon the godly, prayers of one’s own unanswered.”
― Thomas Pynchon, V.
Fair Park
Dallas, Texas
“It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle
Luminous
Santa Fe Trestle Trail
Dallas, Texas
Custom Love Lock on the Santa Fe Trestle Trail.
“By early evening all the sky to the north had darkened and the spare terrain they trod had turned a neuter gray as far as the eye could see. They grouped in the road at the top of a rise and looked back. The storm front towered above them and the wind was cool on their sweating faces. They slumped bleary-eyed in their saddles and looked at one another. Shrouded in the black thunderheads the distant lightning glowed mutely like welding seen through foundry smoke. As if repairs were under way at some flawed place in the iron dark of the world.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
Trinity River
Dallas, Texas
“Judging from the spiderwebs clinging to it, the emergency stairway was hardly ever used. To each web clung a small black spider, patiently waiting for its small prey to come along. Not that the spiders had any awareness of being “patient”. A spider had no special skill other than building its web, and no lifestyle choice other than sitting still. It would stay in one place waiting for its prey until, in the natural course of things, it shriveled up and died. This was all genetically predetermined. The spider had no confusion, no despair, no regrets. No metaphysical doubt, no moral complications. Probably. Unlike me.
I move,therefore I am.”― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Trinity River Levee
Dallas, Texas
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel
Paula & Lucky
Santa Fe Trestle Trail
Dallas, Texas
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
—–Yeats, The Second Coming
Stray Christmas Ball in the Trinity River, Dallas, Texas
“I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.”
― J.G. Ballard
Bicycle Drag Race, Continental Bridge, Dallas, Texas
Dallas Skyline from the Continental Bridge Park
“They swore by concrete. They built for eternity.”
― Gunter Grass
The Horseshoe, Trinity River Bottoms, Dallas, Texas
“When Armageddon takes place, parking is going to be a major problem.”
― J.G. Ballard, Millennium People
“If you live today, you breathe in nihilism … it’s the gas you breathe. If I hadn’t had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.”
― Flannery O’Connor
Tin Ceiling
Frisco, Texas
I have always had a love for embossed tin ceilings and look out for them in old buildings across the heartland. This beautiful example is in the Lebanon Baptist Church in the Frisco Heritage Village. I took this shot while listening to a talented woman play the fiddle.
The only thing better than a tin ceiling is a tin roof.
Bill Chance 