Site (May)

Site under deconstruction. Brickwork unpieced, foundations smashed down. Patterns of fashion reduced, a consumer ruin, to earthen squares crossed with bulldozer tracks, rubble mere blips on the surface. Leave the tabula rasa to archaeologists, bomb disposal units. These full-stops find definition in the rain. Site under construction. Defenceless land is fenced off, in weeks will be hives of brickmen, or a skyscraper hole. Open space goes to rio, a horizontal-vertical omniverse of grid. Completion date: next May. Only there’s roll-out, overheads, downloads, weather. Fashion requires imported patterns. Hardhats show every day but deadline races against skyline, the next big thing.