in the 40 years since pruitt-igoe was knocked down, the land has grown into a forest with lush vegetation. the earth is still covered in broken bricks, pavement, and manhole covers. it should be of no surprise that in its present state this land and the land around it was acquired nefariously. just lookup developer paul mckee – actually don’t, why read about crooked developers when one might read of minoru yamaski, who designed the thirty-three, eleven-story buildings (as well as new york’s world trade center), or godfrey reggio, who featured pruitt-igoe’s destruction in 1982’s koyaanisqatsi (life out of balance), or philip glass, who composed the score to the film (and who’s pruit igoe & prophecies was later used in the birth doctor manhattan scene of 2009’s watchmen).

im living blocks away from the site. big machines are grazing what’s left. soon it will become the national geospatial agency-west; a space-spy agency

i take some rubble, a few instant photos, and send it off to an acquaintance in the philip glass ensemble. this is that

pansies growing in a clearing that was a parking lot

national geospatial intelligence agency, west

a mountain of rubble with downtown buildings and the gateway arch in the background

cass+jefferson

pieces of pavement + brick, B

looking east on 40 years of brush (possibly dickson street)

a tower of tires

pieces of pavement + brick, A

(a+b)

listening to phillip glass’ pruit igoe (1983)