Like No Christmas Eve Past
By Steve Bennett | December 24, 2020
For years, I’ve taken a walk at dusk on Christmas Eve. This afternoon’s ritual trek through Cambridge and Somerville, MA was a stark reminder of how surreal the world has become. There was no trace of the festive energy that usually marks this time of the year, and few hints that I was passing through a dense urban area. The light fog contributed to the eerie feeling of being in a Twilight Zone episode. Two photos from my walk sum up the mood of 2020.
Taken through the window of Mr. Crêpe, a normally bustling cafe in Davis Square, Somerville, MA
Taken through the center of a wreath on the door of Urban Hearth, an intimate farm-to-table restaurant on Mass Ave in Cambridge, MA
May no Christmas Future ever look like this again.
Copyright © 2020 Steve Bennett
Steve Bennett is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based visual artist. He began taking photographs more than 40 years ago, in the age of film, and transitioned to digital photography in the late 90s. Today, in addition to taking and making traditional street, macro, and landscape photographs, he creates photo-based abstract composites designed to take viewers on fanciful flights of the imagination through virtual realms. His work has been displayed in numerous juried exhibitions, and at Google’s Kendall Square, Cambridge offices as well as various technology, biotech, and financial service companies in the Boston area.