The Street Beyond Concern

The Attic is on the Buitenzorg, or literally the street beyond concern, what the French call the Chemin du sans-souci. Entering it is like walking into a cage, and descending 600 feet directly down to a coal seam, progressively wading through the sediment and fossil fuel, then crawling past the crags and stalactites, onwards, on your way to the rag and bone shop, where ideas are created, but nobody is there to hear about them.

Indeed, what is not apparent in this photo, is that the attic containing the rag and bone shop is actually 23 floors beneath the surface of this poldarized stratified swamp, slowly but irrevocably being drawn back into the primeval backwaters of the North Sea.