A cassette in pieces on the asphalt
Spotted on the walk home: a broken cassette and a tangle of loose tape on sunlit asphalt. No repair, no rescue. Just a closer look and this note.
- Takes
- Ten minutes at the side of the road
- Needs
- Nothing. I left it where it was.
- Result
- One photograph and this note.
On the walk home the afternoon sun caught something shiny at the edge of the road: a cassette, cracked open, with its tape pulled out and lying in loose loops on the asphalt.
Checkpoint 1: Look before touching
The shell was broken open, so there was no telling what had been recorded on it. With the tape loose and tangled on the road, whatever was on it was unlikely to play again.
Checkpoint 2: Decide what kind of find it is
Some finds are projects. This one was an observation: something that used to hold music or somebody's voice, now just a pattern of loops in the sun. I took one photograph from where I stood and walked on.