Neighborhood Stills

Neighborhood Stills

Life Spans 01

Various stretches of living time

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Alexandru Boia
Apr 22, 2026
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Everything in a neighborhood keeps different time.

A transient and improvised chessboard gone before the evening is over. A rose burns brightly for a moment and is gone. A house settles into a slower rhythm altogether, carrying years in its walls, railings, cracks, and improvised signs of care.

These three images are small notes on that uneven timing: the temporary, the seasonal, and the stubbornly persistent sharing the same streets without ever belonging to the same clock.

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