Mornings Often Leave

Another location discovered during what initially felt like a morning of failures. In hindsight, those mornings often leave behind the quietest discoveries.

I first noticed this old Avondale water tower a couple of years ago while exploring the area for places to photograph. Surrounded now by warehouses, construction sites, and expanding neighborhoods, it immediately stood apart from everything around it. I made a few photographs back then, but I hadn’t fully understood what drew me to it until this morning.

What interests me now is the way the structure feels suspended between different versions of the desert. The tower belongs to an older landscape, yet the concerns surrounding it remain unchanged. Water continues to shape growth here, just as it always has. The forms of expansion evolve from one era to the next, but the dependency underneath them stays the same.

The title came from the feeling of the morning itself. The brief stillness before heat, traffic, and movement begin to take over. In the desert, mornings often leave quickly. So do the landscapes tied to them.