Monday, October 24, 2011

Wall - Avon, North Carolina

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Frankly, the subject of this photo is a bit of a mystery.
This is a set of walls in a sandy lot next to the Food Lion market in Avon N.C. These walls were in place one summer when we came down to spend the typical week in a beach cottage. The summer before the lot had been just sand. I took a 6X9 cm. negative photo on “chromogenic” film which I remember being a two or three minute time exposure.

The walls were notched on the sides at about the same height, but they weren’t arranged in a way that suggested that they could all come together as a structure. They were up the next summer too, but the next year they were gone.

About four years beyond that the entire shopping center got expanded and re-designed. Only then did I think to ask the manager of the Food Lion about the walls. Unfortunately, that was only his second year in the store. I had no luck asking at the cottage rental agency either, as no one remembered them.

2 comments:

fakemikeroach said...

I love the shot, there's a definitive Kubrick feeling to it. All that is missing is some Ligetti background music...

Ed Deasy said...

Thanks ! You've hit that on the nose. That shot would work perfectly with a Kubrick dolly shot, slowly pushing the camera down the space between the walls.
I have wondered if the walls were a mistake. They were there, then they disappeared the next year. Mistake that ended after the suit was settled? We'll never know.