Personal posts
Posts on architecture, obsessions, photography, poems, visits to art exhibits, essays, family, and or things about me organized under art, home, and work.
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David Schalliol’s Isolated Buildings Studies
David Schalliol’s Isolated Building Studies >Furniture and Tires, originally uploaded by juggernautco. David Schalliol is an editor at Gapers Block, where I am a staff writer . I have followed his Isolated Buildings Series since I started there in February, and I think it’s a really important work. Here’s how he describes the series:…
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My Flickr Map
This is by no means comprehensive, but I have recently mapped a ton of my Flickr photos on their mappy thingy.
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St. Lawrence Church, 7400 S Saint Lawrence Avenue > The prairie re-encroaches
St. Lawrence Church, 7400 S Saint Lawrence Avenue > The prairie re-encroaches, originally uploaded by juggernautco. Last week when I traveled with David Schalliol on the South Side to document his Isolated Building Studies, we came across St. Lawrence Parish. Really quite stunning to see this configuration of buildings– Church, school, rectory– a set that…
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Sludge from Construction Site Next to the Chicago River, 300 North LaSalle
Sludge from Construction Site Next to the Chicago River, 300 North LaSalle, originally uploaded by juggernautco. We forget that not all soil is equal. The soft, sludgy mud that we’ve built our city on gets hauled from the shores.
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Alfred Caldwell Lilly Pool
One of my favorite places in Chicago is the Alfred Caldwell Lilly Pool. It’s one of those hidden, thankfully under-appreciated places where you can go and forget you’re in the third largest city in the country. Forgot you’re next to a zoo. Forgot you’re a block away from a highway. Here’s from the city website:…