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Vacant Store, BZ Corner, WA, 2011. (fedia.io)

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Vacant Store, BZ Corner, WA, 2011.

All the pixels, can't miss them, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/6110374799

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The composition plays with the contrast between the ambitiously-sized sign and the humble, rustic old store. The photo is about shapes and scale.

This is also a bit of a nod to Grant Wood's famous 1930 painting, American Gothic. (See https://www.artic.edu/artworks/6565/american-gothic). Wood's painting was inspired by a grandiose, ornate attic window in an otherwise humble rural farmhouse that Wood happened upon during a road trip. The absurdly oversized, incongruously Googie-style arrow sign here reminded me of that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

@[email protected] Wow. NF 23 looks like a great bike ride.