Uncommon Places
One day in 2004, I was browsing through the stacks at Spoonbill and Sugartown to see what was new, and one of the books was the reissue of Stephen Shore’s Uncommon Places. While flipping through that, I was startled to find myself looking at some pictures that were taken in Regina, Saskatchewan. That’s where I’d grown up, but I hadn’t been back in ten years. Now I was feeling homesick. I don’t know what for—these pictures were from 1974, when I was nowhere around.
Yet, a couple of months after looking at those pictures, while driving across from Brooklyn to Port Moody, I took the northern route and stopped in for a few days in Regina. I drove around the city and looked in on places for old times’ sake. I also drove over to the corner of Broad Street and Victoria Avenue and snapped a photo even though we’d never hung out there back then.