ABSTRACT
Teiwes' city spirit images do indeed have a spectral quality to them: both in terms of the color spectrum, as well as the capture and notion of spirit as a specter-an old thing whose presence is sensed more than it is glimpsed. The endless gray winter sky reflected on the river's surface is overexposed and becomes white nothingness as the muted winter colors find themselves stretched into an unlikely radiance. Time has no meaning in these images and yet makes them powerful for that reason alone. Boston is a big city and its history, both before and after its founding, is rich and complicated; so too are all the stories of all the rivers that bisect the that final city or settlement on their way to the vastness of the oceans. Teiwes does not only bend time, but place, even geography itself: for rivers appear sometimes to be willful and just change the direction they want to flow towards.
