David Legg's Photoblog

Sign of Hope

Posted by David Legg (Detroit, United States) on 28 January 2012 in Cityscape & Urban and Portfolio.

The Old Redford neighborhood in Detroit is known for its street art, created by a community of artists in the area.

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My formal portfolio site is available at www.dleggphoto.com.

Time leaves evidence in layers. Sometimes the layers reveal themselves so we can see traces of the years out of sequence. The past and the present interact in ways that were never intended. People, decades apart, impose their actions on the built environment, never realizing that the actions that other people took years before would someday mingle with their own efforts, creating effects none of them could ever imagine. And now, when we see those layers exposed, we create a new meaning.

What about the natural world? A flower is beautiful to us, and to other creatures as well. Even insects are attracted to the blossom. But the meaning we give to the bloom is a human thing.