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the will of an epoch

the will of an epoch - Richmond Generating Station
"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space."

~Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Portside Power Plant (a pseudonym), 2009. Photograph by Matthew Christopher of Abandoned America


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a certain kind of emptiness
echoes from the life behind
rendered drab by the shadows of time
of forms assembled in the light
locked from the inside
counterpoint to our fundamental failures
a symbol for the century
the trail of the past
in things continually vanishing
hard to say
what i wanted