Old Store
Entryway detail
Expressive flair
Design remains
There is satisfaction in finding abandoned and ignored art in unlikely locations.
“He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.” – Epicurus
Entryway detail
Expressive flair
Design remains
There is satisfaction in finding abandoned and ignored art in unlikely locations.
“He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.” – Epicurus
1920’s Texaco
Stained glass
Gas pump globe
Extremely rare and only $3,500.00.
“You can trust your car to the man who wears the star.” – Roy Eaton
Diversely positioned
Staggered intervals
Enter into latency
Surface solidarity is vested in an abandoned vehicular object allowed to maturate.
“It is evident therefore that color harmony must rest ultimately on purposive playing upon the human soul.” – Wassily Kandinsky
Energetical alignment
Occasion celebration
Remembrance
Fulfilling roles established by society.
“Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
Time function
Entropy factors
Abstract framework
Time is sometimes visibly imprinted on infrastructure objects.
“Time then is simply a label attached to each state configuration, and the passage of time represents the changing state of an interacting system.” – Mark John Fernee
Rebar rock
Shadow texture
Color evidence
Sometimes all that is left remains uniquely interesting.
“There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.” – Mahatma Gandhi
Concrete patina
Highway bottom
Abstractedness
There is much to see and explore on Belle Isle, especially as it relates to the passage of time.
“Time erodes us all. — Meg Rosoff
Rental beach house
Yard pool
Amenity
Such dilapidation tends to reduce the price of admission.
“If you don’t understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance.” – W. Edwards Deming
Inside fortifications
Decommissioned
Stone fort
Casemates were constructed as gun positions but also used to house soldiers, store weapons and ammunition, and hold prisoners.
“After the War of 1812, the United States made its first substantial commitment to national defense, including a system of forts along its coast. Work began on Fort Monroe in 1819, using massive stone walls to form seven connected points or bastions.” – Lara Lutz
Arch fabric
Heritage rewritten
Selective history
For two years after the civil war, Jefferson Davis was held as a military prisoner confined to a small room known as a casemate at Fort Monroe near Norfolk. He was never tried.
“The Fort Monroe Authority on Friday removed the letters that spelled “Jefferson Davis Memorial Park” from an iron archway that honored the one-time Confederate president imprisoned at the former Army post.” – Lisa Vernon Sparks