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Lake Sebago, Harriman State Park, NY, August 8, 2021.

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Lake Sebago, Harriman, NY.

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Lake Sebago, Harriman, NY.

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Lake Sebago, Harriman, NY. My plan was to stealth camp at Lake Skenonto. Along the way, I passed by the ruins of the Lake Sebago facility, where there was a large group of car campers having a good time. I decided to bike down and ask if there was any drinking water. They said no, and kindly offered some of theirs. I said no, that I had come prepared to filter my own, but thank you. I have been thinking a lot about these photos the past month because I was really quite emotionally overwhelmed while taking them. It probably had something to do with the fact that this was my first solo bike camping trip, and it had been hard. I was physically exhausted and emotionally raw.

It isn’t that I thought “What a shame, we need more recreational park facilities like this.” It’s that it made me think about all the future storms that will ruin public works, how fewer and fewer of them will get fixed, and how it will be harder and harder to get clean drinking water as a public utility. How easily we will let go of the simplest pleasures of civilization because we thought we should go it alone.

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Lake Sebago, Harriman, NY. I was thinking, we’re gonna ruin it so bad we won’t have anywhere nice to sit anymore. Then I thought of that wonderful verse from Sun Ra’s Nuclear War. If they push that button Your ass gotta go Whatcha gonna do Without your ass?

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Nick. November 2019.

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Dippikill Pond, NY.

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Jacob Riis Beach, Queens, New York. June 6, 2021.

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Prospect Park.

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Alan. January, 2021.

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City Island, The Bronx. September, 2020.

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Provincetown, MA. July, 2020.

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Dippikill Pond. November, 2020.

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September, 2020.

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Glen Mawr Dr and Thorodin Mountain. Black Hawk, CO.

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Bag in bag. Boston, MA. July 2020.

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Paerdegat Basin, Canarsie, New York.