#riverartsdistrict

Joe Wycked 🎃👻💀 🌻🚗⛰️joewynne@mindly.social
2025-01-18

Ultra Coffee

Inside a window overlooking flood debris, two Zillennial women discuss the latest social media topic. Years from now, they will realize too late how much society had eroded their confidence, not their value.

Next to the coffee sweeteners, two young artists with edgy hair, tats and piercings take a selfie and talk about their restricted ability to exhibit and sell their wares. Years from now, their kids will laugh at the photo. The couple will wonder how they lost their vision in the unrelenting flow of adulting.

Nearby, a mid-career couple commiserate about work-life balance. Decades from now, they will face an urgent wave of decisions for retirement. They will wish they had started preparing earlier.

In the corner, an old, weathered traveler types wistfully on his phone.

#Asheville #AVL #Travel
#RiverArtsDistrict #TravelPhotography
#Helene #WNC

Flood debris consisting of remains of artists' studios and display spaces. On the right is a street sign for the intersection of River Arts Pl. and Lyman St.The front of a coffee shop painted white. There is a flag pointing out to the left saying "Open". Above an awning is painted Ultra Coffee Bar. A bench and picnic table sit in front. Leafless trees rise above the rear of the building under a bright blue sky.
Joe Wycked 🎃👻💀 🌻🚗⛰️joewynne@mindly.social
2025-01-17

Now at Ultra Coffee as my base.

Not sure why I wanted to come down to the River Arts District. Just to thrill at devastation? Find signs of hope? Probably both.

Reconstruction is in full steam. Earth moving vehicles and construction workers are everywhere. Among the many abandoned studios, some have reopened.

A scenic stream under one small building turned into a raging torrent of destruction.

#Asheville #AVL #Travel #RiverArtsDistrict #Helene

A workers scrapes in the window of the lower level of an upscale apartment complex built into an old brick warehouse. It is surrounded by a fence.Back of small brick building with a stream running under it. Mudline shows extent of flooding halfway up the building.In the foreground, a stack of pallets. Then a street and beyond a long metal sign saying 'All feet stand under the stars'Sidewalk with warehouses on left, parked cars on right. High sign for Odyssey Gallery and sidewalk sign saying Artist Studio Open.
2022-11-22

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