Interdependence

I have always admired the attempt of engineers and architects to overcome nature through their mighty skyscrapers and lesser buildings. As I walked in Downtown Houston, a place filled with glass and steel behemoths, I noticed something unplanned and perhaps unimagined in the slide ruler world. As close neighbors, the buildings themselves created often beautiful reflections that changed by the time of day, the weather, the time of year and the position of the observer. These reflections are not only ethereal, but are also shaped by the materials used in creating the building.

On a human level, I see these reflections as a call to assist one another in our own towns and cities. A recognition that we are interdependent- the more so as we are close in proximity to one another. I see that we influence and, in some respects, create one another through our conversations, interactions and acts of caring. While these are images of steel, glass and concrete, I see them as allegories of what constitutes a community.

I hope these images will provoke conversation and perhaps also introspection.