Brenner at Statesville Blvd. (Please view large)

These last few images seem almost iconic in the most general, bland, suburban fashion. It's as if you stepped back and saw them coolly and without attachment.

It's a desert out there, Jack.  It's an almost featureless desert in its monotony and repetition.

 

--Lannie

Again, the sky manages to be the subject here. Makes one weary of the city, just like we are longing to breathe.

Amy

 

Yes, Amy, even small cities have too much pavement and too little green space--so here the only real escape is the sky.

 

--Lannie

I like these, Lannie.  "The Strip Mall Desert" indeed.  Echoes of "The New Topography".

Thank you, Steve.  I didn't see your remark earlier.  I am having trouble finding the "beauty in the banal" in this one.  When the clouds and even the color of the stop lights are the only pleasing components (to any degree), then one has captured only banality--with little or no beauty in it.

 

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--Lannie