Like PB’n’J: Urban Exploration and Graffiti

When you’ve lived in an urban setting long enough, certain visuals don’t strike you as especially strange or unique. For example, there’s a table that sits on an empty corner near the intersection of Cass and North Grand. It’s a rickety old thing, but it’s placed right in the middle of the abandoned lot. It looks like something takes place on it, near it, around it. But what?

On Sunday afternoon, I left a photo location that I’ve been visiting since December, called The Magic Door. It’s located in near-North St. Louis, just a couple minutes north of Grand Center. The neighborhood immediately surrounding it is distressed, but not without life. Leaving there on Sunday afternoons, I’m struck by the sheer amount of churches, for example, several of which inhabit that corner of the world; as well as the great outfits worn by congregants.