59. some houston

one

beware falling through:
Lerup's 'holey plain', perceived at a certain scale, is the result of outward-expanding leapfrog development, a sense of distance reliant on the car, non-existent zoning, and stick-frame building.

two

in an afternoon, shot from the driver's seat, T to B:

refinery + storage tanks off 225 E

donuts + oil: this chain was visible elsewhere in the refinery area

birds + oil: ?

on the way to oil, bearing S towards the ship channel bridge

vinegar factory in the 5th ward, and the distant mirage of downtown rising up from flat

three

the roads here careen and are temples to speed, revealing beneath a forest of columns in diminutive proportion (coming from the Bay Area's herculean seismic-minded structures). the ubiquitous presence of slowly running, barely carving bayou water (this is the Buffalo) violates the otherwise straight-shot city, a squiggly reminder of weather's force which replenishes, decays, clouds, and bungles the attempt to tidy and erase.