Honeyrot’s Candying of the Streets of Laredo

Honeyrot’s Candying of the Streets of Laredo

by Noé Cuéllar To candy something is to preserve it against decay: fruit is saturated with sugar until sweetness becomes a means of keeping it intact. Honey preserves, rot is decay, a contradiction contained in Honeyrot’s name. In Laredo, a city whose water crisis has made infrastructure unusually tangible, the metaphor takes on an uneasy […]