COMPLEX FIRE PHOTO SERIES
Las Vegas, December 02, 2016. An apartment complex was consumed by fire. The graffitied building had been a vacant redevelopment project, likely inhabited by squatters who were suspected of unintentionally starting the blaze. There were no injuries.
Photographed a few weeks after the fire
planar-swaths-of-char rival
the gestural washes of persistent graffiti
across a carcass of concrete and stucco
belted by rails, and bleached by a desert winter sun.