Brick Graffiti- M.H. ’56; Al Malmsten ’44

Ground floor windows were built to be barred.

Gopher Ordnance Works, aka the U-Lands, is a landscape where roots and boughs break apart concrete and steel.

Between all of the buildings was dense growth, especially vines.

In the distance, the San Haven Sanatorium water tower.

Someone’s fractal cheat sheet, spraypainted on the side of the Osborn.

From the bottom of the skyway I looked back, my eyes tracing the vines from the marsh up the smokestacks to the perfect Midwestern sky.

A cottage for masons infected with TB to live together.

Between elevators, a single tree has taken root. I think it’s growing out of a rail grade, so the seed might have fallen off of a train.

Don Crist ’83. Brick Graffiti Series.