shot with the Lomo, using the Tunnelvision lens
When I first saw this staircase, I wondered if the house had been abandoned. Foreclosed, maybe. Or perhaps the owner had died, and nobody cared to take care of the property. Maybe the occupants went missing. Maybe they fled the law. I can't help but imagine scenarios like this.
But then I corrected myself: Why would anyone build stairs as they hurried out of a home they never planned to live in again?
The unfinished wood, the lack of rails: both seemed almost improvised, finished in a hurry. This house was in transition - maybe from a single to multi-family home. The stairs represented a beginning, not an end.
Funny how beginnings and endings can look the same.