Project – daily writing exercise – May 26
May 27th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Daily WritingIt begins as an idea, a vision, an inspiration and begins to take form. Architects shape a dream on sheets of rough paper, modeling the idea. The fresh smelling sheets are handed around at board room meetings where a hard has has not yet been seen. The winning bidder creates more details, licks the ground to find the prevailing wind of opinion on facilities, sniffs the breeze of wants and desires and commences. The ground is dug with huge earthworks machines on caterpillar tracks that gouge and rape and leave a trail of diesel dust in the air and the smell of freshly ruptured soil. Down deeper they dig, into the foundations of the earth making way for parking places.
Meanwhile in the board room, in non hard-hatted meetings the plans begins to change as new needs become apparent, instead of beautiful straight lines, the edges start to become the arms of a struggling octopus. The architects dream now starts to scream like a nightmare, ‘but, it just cant be done’. On site the ruminating motors of construction cranes and on site generators thrum with bitter exhausts while smoko tastes sweet. Hot brewed coffee and pastries from that little French pattisiere on the corner. The workers room is a pall of cigarette smoke and bright construction jackets just visible through the nicotine cloud. Muddy boots leave clumps of hardening soil near the entry way….
