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December Twilight: Charles Burchfield, 1932-1938 (Wichita Museum of Art)
He creeps round the eerie empty houses at night
the cry of a lost soul illuminating a late window
on foreclosure and dispossession
The night stalker
alone, driving for hours through abandoned
neighborhoods, senses a curious
elation -- calmed for once, for once feeling almost
at home -- as though the light left on in
the vacant house had been lit
there for a ghost -- for him, alone --
- Untitled 2152, 1998: photo by Todd Hido (Kaune, Sudendorf Gallery for Contemporary Photography, Cologne)
- Untitled 2524, 1999: photo by Todd Hido (Kaune, Sudendorf Gallery for Contemporary Photography, Cologne)
- Untitled 1968, 1997: photo by Todd Hido (Kaune, Sudendorf Gallery for Contemporary Photography, Cologne)
- Untitled 1922-c, 1997: photo by Todd Hido (Kaune, Sudendorf Gallery for Contemporary Photography, Cologne)
Half million dollar house under foreclosure, Salinas, California: photo by Brendel, 13 February 2008
