Ed Ruscha Never Passed This Way...

...but I did. I like both his photographs and his hardedge paintings of gas stations. I don't have any perspective here so this must have been inspired by his photographs. Both the photos and the paintings are totally cool but in different ways.

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More detail on black (click the photo to see).

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rdhinmn ^club

Don't forget the Subway... Decent enough place to eat if nothing fancier suits your fancy.

6 years ago.

John FitzGerald ^club

I was taking this from the parking lot of a superior restaurant across the street, Bob. I had some very good cabbage rolls.

6 years ago.

J. Gafarot ^club

Interesting picture.
Those cables can kill it or render the whole image more coherent.

6 years ago.

John FitzGerald ^club has replied to J. Gafarot ^club

Thanks, Jose. Here I thought the cables went well with long horizontal awning, but since I generally like overhead cables my judgment may be questionable.

This type of awning may have been introduced in Mies' Nun's Island gas station, which was also an Esso:
en.wikiarquitectura.com/building/mies-van-der-rohe-gas-station

6 years ago.

Jean

An oasis of light in the dark mysterious blue of the night.

6 years ago.

John FitzGerald ^club has replied to Jean

They really can be oases, Jean. I remember once getting lost in the backroas of the Niagara Peninsula and finally finding a haven, at 3 in the morning, in the service centre on the highway at Woodstock, Ontario (which is quite a way from the Niagara Peninsula).

6 years ago.

tiabunna ^club

Great viewed large, I like the foreground item (railing?) leading in.

6 years ago.

John FitzGerald ^club has replied to tiabunna ^club

Thanks, George. I believe what you're referring to is a curb.

6 years ago.

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