Linger for a moment to think about ruin and decay. What if ruin is not the result of neglect but is, instead, an expression of value? Ruin and decay are not accidents but choices, as is our fascination with them. The one, perhaps, creates the other.
We live and wander amongst ruin. Ruin dots the landscape. We work around ruin, seem to preserve ruin.
Crumbling is not an instant’s Act
A fundamental pause
Dilapidation’s processes
Are organized Decays