ECHOES OF URBAN DECAY

“We all vividly remember words from our past. Words that buoyed and supported us, made us laugh, cry, or cut us to the quick as if it were yesterday. Yet, the physical spaces where we first heard or read those words have not aged so gracefully.

Time erodes our physical structures, our schools, homes, churches, offices, theatres and town halls where historic speeches and hushed whispers were once delivered. But the words themselves remain clear in our minds, like an echo that refuses to fade.

Distressed and textured paint mimic the worn and weathered surfaces of our cities with their crumbling walls, peeling posters, and decaying structures. Symbolic of the relentless passage of time and inevitable decay.

Yet, even as they too are weathered by time, words retain their potency. Their essence lingers, and the ideas they carry, good and bad, persist – unaltered, if perhaps a little faded.

Words endure.” — Matt Eley