a stepped housing complex built as a stepped complex of terracotta orange, warm and dusty coloured mineral paint over blockwork, the block courses reading through, thirty interlocking blocks stacked down a green hillside and filling the frame to all four edges, seen from above and across. Open-air stairs zigzag between the blocks and deep square windows cut into them. Dark cypress and one palm stand between the volumes, and one small round pool of blue water sits at the bottom of the slope. Warm open shade with the sun just outside the frame, the terracotta orange, warm and dusty holding at full strength through the shade and every shadow a deeper version of it. the planting is heavier than the building, growing over the roofs and down the faces. Photographed on film, fine grain through the mid-tones and holding in the darks. Mediterranean and fortified, housing built all at once as a hill town.