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"Indianapolis" (Indiana 2.30 AM) / © Flavio Martín Morante_2009

"Indiana 2.30AM"

"It is cold. March Midwest cold.

I want to call you.

The vending machine sucks.

Too late to say good night,

too early to say good morning.

The wooden chair makes horror movie noises when I move.

My feet are tired, my shoes are dead.

Someone jumps in a cab in the emptiness of a night full of darkness.

Still have a wait.

I wanted to call you".

Someone asked me in reference to a prior post (the Internal Exteriors video) what was "the thing about Indiana 2.30AM"?. 

"Indiana 2.30AM" is one of the many short texts I wrote on my trips between Birmingham (AL) and Milwaukee (WI) while living in the South. I was not pretending to write about the trips, but yes I was recording my trips on the Greyhound bus on pictures -and wanted to write about some of the images- since that was actually the excuse to take the bus, (otherwise I could have drive 13 hours straight shot and saved me some time and couple of headaches). To tell you the truth, it was the last "self-project" I made completely (and purposely) on black and white film. There are around only 200 or some pictures about those roundtrips which maybe someday I will seat down to really do something with them. (Sometimes you got to let some things to cool down). Anyway, while on those almost 22 hours crossing the "States" (Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin) I was mostly awake, absorbing everything I saw, heard, and even smell (not so much fun on that one) in order to create my own big picture of a "self imposed adventure". On every station I stopped, mostly at high hours of the night, there alone, watching, pointing my camera, I also wrote "short lines" of my impressions or thoughts at the moment. While looking at those phones (the ones on the picture), there they were, silent, waiting for someone to make a call, but what will be the excuse for someone to pick up a phone at that time of the night? And so, to answer that question I wrote "Indiana (2.30AM)".

F. Martin Morante.