https://motherconcrete.drr.ac 2025-06-07 daily 1.0 https://motherconcrete.drr.ac/assets/images/gallery02/77482341.jpg Leave me with the concrete; let the rain-soaked high-rise buildings grow taller until all I can see is the fog in their irises and the distant blue eyes of an apartment awake in the dark. \n \nWhen I look up, there is sky, and then there is concrete. https://motherconcrete.drr.ac/assets/images/gallery01/77482341.jpg CHONGQING (重庆) 2011 \n \n **China rapidly urbanized in the 70s and 80s, and now has around 145 cities with over a million people. These photos were taken by my father when we lived in Hong Kong.** https://motherconcrete.drr.ac/assets/images/image04.jpg https://motherconcrete.drr.ac/assets/images/gallery04/9da134c6.jpg Man worships the solemn, unmoving concrete that lines the fabric of our lives. https://motherconcrete.drr.ac/assets/images/gallery05/8c50ec13.jpg Smog in New York City. c. 1965 https://motherconcrete.drr.ac/assets/images/gallery06/27017ec2.jpg Northern Pulp Mill at Abercrombie, Pictou County, Nova Scotia https://motherconcrete.drr.ac/assets/images/image09.jpg https://motherconcrete.drr.ac/assets/images/image03.jpg https://motherconcrete.drr.ac/assets/images/image01.jpg https://motherconcrete.drr.ac/assets/images/image02.jpg https://motherconcrete.drr.ac/assets/images/image06.jpg https://motherconcrete.drr.ac/assets/images/image07.jpg https://motherconcrete.drr.ac/assets/images/image08.jpg https://motherconcrete.drr.ac/assets/images/image10.jpg https://motherconcrete.drr.ac/assets/images/image13.jpg https://motherconcrete.drr.ac/assets/images/image11.jpg https://motherconcrete.drr.ac/assets/images/image12.jpg https://motherconcrete.drr.ac/assets/images/image14.jpg https://motherconcrete.drr.ac/assets/images/gallery03/c9f01b1b.jpg There is always concrete: methodical blocks and things far too heavy to lift up– and the stony voice crackles from the speakers, a layer of dust rejoicing in its last swirl through the air as I step off the train, into a land without movement. https://motherconcrete.drr.ac/assets/images/image05.jpg