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Alpha & Omega

Alpha & Omega

My name is Rebecca Jean Allen.This is my life.

I'm a woman from St. Louis. This is my first-person account of my own life, and the front door to everything I've made.

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Doors I keep open

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From the photographs

The rail, then the park

I keep two kinds of pictures.

I keep two kinds of pictures. One is the city from a car window. One is a plant close enough to count the petals.

Forest Park, March 2024. The stone sign, bare trees, daffodils in a row. I took it from the driver's seat. The same morning, the Amoco sign stood over a Saint Louis intersection. Hard blue sky. The window is still in the frame.

The other picture is a geranium in a clay pot on a rail. Two frames. The whole plant, then the flower. Salmon petals, a dry green leaf, a pot that has been looked after. That is horticulture. It is also just a picture I took.

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Seven frames

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White roses and silver-green leaves on a charcoal table, lit by a warm lamp.

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The atelier

White roses on a dark table. The shop is STL Made With Love.

  1. 01

    March, from the car

    Forest Park and the Amoco sign are the same morning in 2024. Both photographs are mine.

  2. 02

    A plant, up close

    A geranium in a clay pot, photographed twice: the whole plant, then the flower.

  3. 03

    The table

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  • The Fret

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    The gold lattice, written on its own. It is not the Heighley chronicle.

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    One season of the walk, in order, as a reading.

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