There’s a strange kind of heaviness that settles over me whenever I walk this avenue. It’s not just the thick air or the smell of exhaust—it’s the silence inside the noise, the apathy that seems to drip from every concrete wall. This photo was taken on a day like any other, and yet, it captures that exact emotional weight I’ve carried here for years. The green columns feel like relics, holding up not just a structure but a memory of something that once aspired to be grander, cleaner, more human.
When I look at the image, I see symmetry, repetition, perspective—yes, the bones of good composition. But what strikes me is not its technical balance, but the psychological imbalance it holds. There is depth, but no warmth. The columns stretch forward, yes, but toward what? The horizon isn't a destination—it's a vanishing point where everything gets lost. People walk, yes, but it feels more like drifting, floating in a slow current of indifference. No one really arrives here. They just pass through.
This place was inaugurated in 1974 with a promise—a modern future, wide streets, strong structures. That promise now feels like a cruel echo. Decades later, the cracks have spread not only through the buildings but through us. We’ve stopped seeing the decay because we’ve internalized it. The physical city mirrors the internal city—dissonant, tired, fragmented. There’s a kind of urban neurosis in how things persist without evolving, how beauty becomes a rumor and concrete becomes camouflage.
And yet, I keep returning. Maybe because I’m stubborn, or maybe because I need to look this discomfort in the face. This avenue is a mirror, and not always a kind one. It reflects the inertia of a place suspended between eras, between what it could have been and what it became. Maybe I walk these streets hoping to find that missing bridge—the one between memory and future. But most days, I just find more noise. More cement. More ghosts of light.
Still, the photograph is honest. Brutally so. It doesn’t lie about the melancholy of repetition or the poetry of decay. It’s not trying to beautify; it’s trying to say: this is where we are. And maybe that’s what I needed. Not hope, not answers—just a reflection clear enough to make me feel something real again.
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