I photographed and sketched the alleys near these locations in Denver. I think about the accumulation of divergent personal associations so many people have had over time with seemingly unremarkable places.  The weight of it makes theater for me.

“As you leave the station and enter the heart of the city, the scenery becomes increasingly magical; you have the feeling of being inside a huge jack-in-the-box, of finding yourself before the open stage of a wonderful theater.”   – Georgio de Chirico

“…the range of ambiguities opened up by the concept of the rhyparos (mundane, low)  set ‘high’ and ‘low’ planes of reality on direct collision course.” – Norman Bryson