Chart BERy, Atlantic Ave, Dover St. Station 20 - 1899

Curator: I am drawn to the ghostly presence of this blueprint, "Chart BERy, Atlantic Ave, Dover St. Station," likely by Paul Rowell. It feels like a secret language of the city. Editor: It's striking, the way the stark white lines carve out this abstract landscape against the blue grid. Very clinical, almost sterile. I'm curious about the formal logic at play. Curator: The chart maps the Boston Elevated Railway, tracing the ascent and descent between stations. To me, it’s a poetic rendering of movement, the hidden architecture of our daily commutes. Editor: Observe the careful delineation of space and time; these arcs and angles aren’t just functional; they're creating a new visual rhetoric of urban transit, a formal study in efficiency. Curator: It reminds me of a musical score, each line a note in the symphony of the subway, resonating with a rhythm we rarely acknowledge. Editor: I see it now, these vectors articulate the raw data into something rhythmic. It is a record of progress—a beautiful formal study of transportation.