I took a walk around a couple of construction sites in the Texas Medical Center today. I am using the theme of construction for an assignment in my HCP class, Words and Images. After working with them tonight, I like them best in black and white. You can see them here.

Pre-shoot worksheet for this shoot

In researching writings about construction themes I came across a poem by called “Following the Blueprints” by Susan Eisenberg. Are our constructs serving us or are we serving them?

Following The Blueprints

To open the possibility
of steel against sky
we weld, bolt, strap

wide staircases of marble, arched
skylights, commanding views

serviced by windowless corridors
where ceilings hang low, as though
the ones who will push the carts and carry trays
are unusually small or
prefer to scurry, like mice
in closed dark spaces

or as though
extra headroom might give them
ideas.

-Susan Eisenberg