I snapped this picture on a very gray day, while Dan and I were in St. Louis over "The Holidays". Dan informs me that this facility has been closed down for years. I found the windowless concrete building and empty parking lot arresting. The yellow paint had a nearly toxic glow in the diffuse light. The building may as well be a tomb, it's so devoid of human presence. I like to think of it as a monument in that sense, commemorating the death of the old world.
Dan and I are currently working on a web site that we're hoping to use as a vehicle to explore these types of themes. We'd like to make it, in part, a large co-operative art project. Coming soon...
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