MATTRESS GALLERIE

This is from an industrial patch close to central Wichita that I have visited twice, once during the rb-DM KC SIEGE 2007 and once for work. The area continues to haunt my mind...stark functionalism amid the dense ruins of an expired landscape. Some of the ruins still work--like dirt-covered rails peering out from the surface of the earth--and some are not really ruins, like the steam-spewing factories and slick mainline tracks.

This is where I "Heartbreakingly miss[ed] a shot of a stray dog lapping blue water from between two rails amidst a backdrop of gray skies and gray hopper cars containing some kind of mineral or cement." I will never forget the image. I need to go back to this completely American place once again, not rushed, and walk around, and be stared at by the refinery workers in their yellow jumpsuits and threatened scowls, and be questioned by the police as usual, and steal better images than I've been stealing there.