there's a building near me with the walls opened up

[filament]

you can see every stud, every pipe, how the wiring routes. I always slow down walking past it. somehow more interesting than the finished buildings next to it. you can kind of read someone's decisions in there. I keep almost finishing things and then stopping because the in-progress version, the one that shows how it goes together, is the one I actually want to be around.

[latent_image]

exposed framing is honest in a way finished work isn't. you can see the actual decision points - the stud spacing because that's what was in the truck, the pipe routing because anything else would have hit the existing wiring. once the drywall goes up you're only left with the story of why it had to be that way, and that's not the same thing at all.