11/26-12/2

5217 cornish

1507 lawrence

2302 / 2246 branard

2302 branard (pink)

1506 w. alabama

2301 reba

1201 n durham

4001 meadow lake

712 w. 28th street

710 w. 28th street

2118 park

4211 billingsley

this is a new collage (i am going to fix the image onto a surface) and i will also be working on a photopolymer plate version of this image....from the following location. soon to come!

4003 turnberry

Just off of Stella Link in Ayrshire, this home looks as if the former tenants left without much notice:

5530 darnell

A little late on this one:

3842 durness

3819 purdue

thanks to frank

I was told about this website called Community Walk, which is amazing. It not only allows me to plot out each map point, but also orders them and will show me how to drive to each location in order. This shows my path for shooting today.

http://www.communitywalk.com/houston/texas/map/188507

coh site back up

The City of Houston's page is up and running again - for On-Line Permits. These are the innerloop properties, sorted by section of Houston/color. This makes it much easier to navigate to the site. These are the properties I am scheduled to visit tomorrow.

2313 Sauer

The City of Houston website has been down for a few days now...I am unable to check up on the demolition, but am able to go shoot more at the locations (13) that have been posted already. Many of these have been demolished already - they waste no time. This property is one of my favorites thus far....

3203 & 3209 Adelia St

Both were demolished before i was able to shoot them. Perhaps Lauren can post these 2, 3209 Center Street and 6015 Glencove St if she got them before demo. :)

6015 glencove

2610 sumpter

3206 center

No records match this search! Residential: 3

Nothing more since those 13 properties were posted. I have negatives from some properties and will post the images as soon as I drop off/pick up the film. I am also thinking of using HAR as a cross-reference (as suggested by a fellow demolition tracker).

11/05/07

First properties scheduled for demolition within the Innerloop since November. There are 13 thus far.

No records match this search! Residential: 3

I have searched the properties that are set for demolition between November 1st and today. Nothing in 3 days. In observation, however, it took eight days from the posting of the permit of 2317 Morse to be demolished. I went by again today and they had finished the demo on the secondary portion of the house. Now there is just debris to be removed - along with a precious Fisher Price dollhouse, an easter basket, tiles from a smashed kitchen wall, dresser drawers with kitten contact paper, and and upside down plastic chair. There is no telling what lies under the remainder of the house's (harder to rummage through) debris. There is still mail in the mailbox for both families that lived in this split unit house.

revised statement

"Re:Construction: A Visual Preservation of Houston's Innerloop."
Through this project, I utilize the City of Houston website to track the demolition of residential properties. From November 1st, 2007 until the onset of the installation of this project (predictably 6 months), I locate these properties by referencing Sold Permits online. I am recording the dates and locations of these subjects with Excel spreadsheets, traveling to the location of demolition, and photographing at these sites. After 6 months of documentation I will be able to provide a cumulative collection and/or record of the residential properties within Houston's Innerloop that are inevitably to be removed. As far as imagery for the show, I will be focusing on objects from these locations and selecting a cohesive group. Additionally, there will be a map of Houston's Innerloop affixed to the floor, with numbered map points representing the houses demolished.

morse and fairview

The demolition was posted for this property just last week. Today it is no more - was torn down yesterday. This is the first house I spent time on since working out the re:construction project idea. I will post images of this house to kind of jumpstart the idea, since no properties are posted yet...

meeting w/ am

Not being in school, and around feedback is often times confusing. I met up with a friend last night who is still in the program at UH - different discipline. We discussed re:construction at length, and because of the severe process involved, she is afraid I will lose what it is that makes my work what it is. Afraid that the motivation for creating the work will have been lost in an obsessive, compulsive, and process-oriented approach. I look forward to the first round of images - there is no way for me to visualize the imagery until I am on site, and exploring these locations. Perhaps there is a way to show new and old within one context...or the element of the house in my exploration that pulls at my heartstrings...but more than anything, the beauty of this object that is being demolished.

11/01/07

I have checked the City of Houston > Online Permits site several times today, first at 2:22 pm. I will continue to check for the inclusion of permits specific to the demolition of residential properties, but thus far nothing. I was really excited to shoot today, too! Maybe something will post later.

The format I will follow to keep up with this information includes the use of blogs, excel, and other digital medias. I will log the information on spreadsheets like so: