Athens Descent Page 07

Razor Wire and Stucco
The first street off the hill drops so steeply that the parked cars seem to hold on with their handbrakes. In a doorway two workmen pause, dusty and grinning, and pose as if they had been waiting all day for this photo. Next door, an old neoclassical house is slowly losing its plaster, its shutters closed and its walls sprayed with red tags. A small car squeezes against another faded façade. Around the corner, a garden wall is topped with razor wire, flowerpots perched on top as if nothing were wrong.