January 8, 2023

When it gets cold here the streets turn white. It doesn’t have to snow. If you watch day after day (after day) for a while you can see the concrete turn from black to grey to white. This is how to tell time inside of New York’s cityscape. In other worlds, you can observe the changing leaves, watching them sprout for the first time on buds in the spring, descend into yellow and red hues in the autumn, then fall away and swirl with the wind come winter. And yes, the trees tell time here . . . but still, the concrete, which changes from black to grey to white to black again, has a voice as well, and speaks.