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Architecture of Cities: Mapping Beauty XXV

Architects: Tsao & McKown: 15 William: aka William Beaver House.

Elixirs have always floated gravity free in and above celluloid dreams. A flurry of names have danced with eternity- -and painted with light: Maybe ten-million stand – – stand and pose atop a merry-go-round inhabited by photography’s nearly three-centuries: Ten-Million names read like a reckoning and equally a musical coda: We remember the first creative glimpse: The first visual seduction: A canister of film- – a tray of dye transfer developer: I navigate ahead. Visual history’s malleable poseurs stand at attention ready to be utilized for desirous inventions: The moment’s moment.

I have waited decades to realize nothing matters more than waking to consciousness: Becoming aware of imaginary reveals: I hold in each hand deferentially one part creamsicle, one part dreamsicle: The thrill of my will the will of a thrill: A person’s life nests as a camera in Japanese, Swiss, German mechanisms- – cameras of all formats........

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