Window Sweat
©2012 Craig Ashby
Digital Photograph

Window Sweat is another weird self portrait. Just weird and gorgeous layers of me trying to get the picture. I am glad I captured that weird B in the left of the shot.

This is from the window of the old Big Apple Meat Market. When it was between 41st and 42nd. Now that is just going to be condominiums. Eventually this whole island will be condos.

It is both sad and inevitable. Even after 9-11 construction boomed. Even recessions can’t change the enormous amount of construction in a city like this.

Change is the only constant. Even in the blip of a short human life the change here is enormous. It makes it hard to anchor memories. Even harder to anchor a single day’s journey on a well worn track.

Now this store is closer to us. The last holdout in our neighborhood. One of those few remnants of an older version of New York.