Still Moving
OR Same Corner, Four Views
A car window frames the city but never holds it.
I keep coming back to this. In painting, in preservation, in the conversations I record for the podcast. I’m always at the window. The city moves. I try to catch it. The building stays. I keep moving.
“Still Moving” is a painting that works in four orientations. Same corner, same architecture, same unreachable moment. Turned around until arrival becomes the subject. It is part of my new Inside-Out series, which is really about that threshold: the place where looking becomes longing.
Everything I make keeps circling back to the same question: how does a place hold memory, and what happens when it doesn’t?
My Painting approaches it visually. The podcast approaches it through conversation. The preservationists, the advocates, the people who care. The book goes deeper into a single building, a single history, the layers underneath.
They ‘re not separate projects. They’re the same question from different angles. I’ve been turning it like this painting. Arriving again each time, finding something I didn’t see before.
Right now I’m in a quiet stretch between podcast episodes, deep in the book - the first draft is done, all of it, and I’m back at the beginning now, making it consistent, finding some of the through-lines I couldn’t see while I was in the middle of writing it. And something else is taking shape that I’m not ready to talk about yet. But it belongs to all of this. It’s the same corner. Still turning.
Making this work visible is part of the work.
I’ve had to learn that. The painting on the wall, the conversation recorded, the building that gets to stay standing: none of that means anything without someone to witness it. That’s what this newsletter is.
So, the book is coming.Something else is coming. And I’ll keep turning the corner, arriving again, until I find the angle I haven’t seen yet.
Fall in love with where you are - one impression at a time.
Congratulations on finishing the first draft of the book. That’s a milestone!
I love this post!
Looking at pics that I take out of my windows at different angles is so much fun.
I love watching your creative work as it evolves Nat.