I've been trying to write down why I keep making work about parkways and sprinkler heads. Not for a grant. For myself. This is a draft and it will probably stay a draft.
Suburban surfaces are designed to be looked through, not at. Stucco is meant to disappear behind landscaping. Coping tile is meant to read as pool without registering as a material.
That's what interests me — the care without the ceremony. Someone edges a lawn. Someone patches a crack in a sidewalk with a slightly different gray. It's municipal softness: not gentle, exactly, but persistent.
I'm not trying to redeem suburbia. I'm noticing. Notice long enough and the noticing becomes form.