Houses

I read about art therapists who work with the people living in FEMA trailer camps waiting to go back home. Draw pictures, they tell the people, pictures of what you want your future to be. And young and old, they draw houses.

And sometimes they draw only triangles, triangles they call a house. Triangles that look like attics and roofs. Triangles that don't look much like safety except when water is at your knees and rising.











































Photos: Lower Ninth Ward and Seventh Ward, New Orleans, October 2007