The irony of my having photographed a nearby building site, three times a week for most of 2007, came when I was laid off in October. Never again to look out at the building site from that fourth-floor window to the southwest, I would miss the end of construction by several months. Nevertheless, the incomplete record spans ten months — so over the next weeks I will here and there present photographs in pairs or trios, less attention given to chronology than the endeavor's remarkable contrasts.
First: January and September.