I have commissioned a new photo project for myself this summer. I live overlooking the Picardo Farm P-Patch, the first of Seattle’s popular community gardens, and every spring, I watch the freshly tilled soil become a mosaic of small plots of flowers, beans, peas, tomatoes, with structures ranging from raised beds to ersatz greenhouses. Bear in mind, all this stuff needs to removed by October when the field is tilled over and seeded with a cover crop.
It occured to me I should take a series of photos of this transformation <cue “Circle of Life” theme>. Got the idea this weekend, found a good vantage point (accessible and immovable). Went down there tonight to take a picture and there is already one greenhouse up. So I missed showing the bare field by a day or two.
These will be color pinhole shots, so kind of impressionist but still reasonably useful as documentary material. I have two vantage points, at each end of the field. Looks like about 30 weeks, give or take.