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24-SEP-2006

Old and new, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2006

I juxtapose a massive new downtown office building against the turret of an old neighborhood church to contrast spirituality to commerce and the old to the new. The glass windows of the office building, reflecting the deep blue Utah sky, seem opaque and blind to what is around them. They stare at the church like hundreds of blank eyes.

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Date/Time24-Sep-2006 10:02:45
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Phil Douglis11-Jan-2007 04:47
You had a similar concept in mind, Bernard. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Bernard Bosmans11-Jan-2007 01:58
Steeples are these days dwarfed by commercial towers, as the spiritual is overshadowed by the material. Felt that way, when I took a similar shot some time ago.
http://www.pbase.com/bernard74/image/67705699
Phil Douglis31-Oct-2006 18:22
Yes, I felt this as well. Followers require leadership, and leadership often demands uniformity, just as each of these windows seems to be looking in perfect, unthinking harmony, for moral authority.
Tim May31-Oct-2006 17:13
Sometimes it seems, as an outsider, that some of the faithful fit into uniform complacent step - staring at leader.
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