Inside fortifications
Decommissioned
Stone fort
Casemates were constructed as gun positions but also used to house soldiers, store weapons and ammunition, and hold prisoners.
“After the War of 1812, the United States made its first substantial commitment to national defense, including a system of forts along its coast. Work began on Fort Monroe in 1819, using massive stone walls to form seven connected points or bastions.” – Lara Lutz
Arch fabric
Heritage rewritten
Selective history
For two years after the civil war, Jefferson Davis was held as a military prisoner confined to a small room known as a casemate at Fort Monroe near Norfolk. He was never tried.
“The Fort Monroe Authority on Friday removed the letters that spelled “Jefferson Davis Memorial Park” from an iron archway that honored the one-time Confederate president imprisoned at the former Army post.” – Lisa Vernon Sparks
Pattern on pattern
Geometric relationships
Purposiveness
Experimenting with traditional graphic arts masking techniques is a way to expand visual potential.
“Art is purposiveness without purpose.” – Immanuel Kant
New camera
New project
Creative expansion
The deployment of a unique new tool offers the opportunity for growth and development.
“Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.” – Paulo Coelho
Rub marking
Oxidation patina
Heritage
A ventilating access door demonstrates the randomness of attrition.
“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.” – William Blake
Turret runners
Endicott period
Pedestal carriages
Surprisingly precise and durable, remnants of a once important seacoast defense system fascinates.
“The Endicott Board’s recommendations would lead to a large scale modernization program of harbor and coastal defenses in the United States, especially the construction of modern reinforced concrete fortifications and the installation of large caliber breechloading artillery and mortar batteries.” – Mark A. Berhow
Fanciful
Musing state
Dreamy morning
Magical atmospheric conditions briefly augment secure moorings.
“Without atmosphere a painting is nothing. “ – Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn
Historic greenhouse
Plant nursery
Worth the trip
A fantastic morning was spent exploring healthy exotic plants growing under ideal conditions.
“The air was thick with the warm, wet smell of earth. “ – Rosamund Hodge
Peculiar soling
Orphont seemed
Lay the who
The pedestrian “T. Pott Bridge” is built upon the remnants of a former hydroelectric dam. Near the end of the 1,600-foot-long bridge is an installation that recounts how the former Capital of the Confederate States of America fell and many of its people fled while fire consumed the city.
“The whole riverfront seemed to be in flames….I rode on with a distinctly heavy heart and with a peculiar sort of feeling of orphanage.” – Porter Alexander
