Borrowing its title from a Wallace Stevens poem, Tim Carpenter's first monograph is a calm, steady rhythm of 74 medium-format photographs made in the semi-rural American Midwest, mostly in central Illinois, where he grew up. Each picture frames the seemingly random non-activity of a typical street view, and the contemplative sequencing lets a harmony of natural and geometric motifs modulate quietly throughout: an interplay of minor chords at the intersection of memories and dreams. Stripped of excess, the photographs reflect a poetic attempt to see "the thing in itself", to make meaning with the barest tools possible. It was shown in "American Surfaces and the Photobook" at MoMA in 2018.