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EVEN AS I CONTINUE TO ADD more gas station pictures to my collection I have still not decided to formally commit to the project. Dispite the lack of commitment, I have, nevertheless, given the project a tentative title, there used to be guys in coveralls with greasy hands. Although, it turns out, with some research, that there used to be gals in coveralls with greasy hands.
In any event, I believe that my hesitency to embrace this project is the fact that I do not have a clear-in-my-head project intent. That is to write, that, were I to be pressed to write an artist statement, re: this project, at this point it would be a rather rambling, un-focused statement. And, I most definitely want to have of body of work that evidences a consistent visual characteristic...which, at this time, is a somewhat deadpan picture making approach. An approach which, when coupled to my the new snapshot technique, seems to be a very valid visual picture making / presentation manner of picturing.
All of that written, it is quite possible that I am over-thinking the whole thing. Guess I'll just have to give it some more thought. And, keep making more gas station pictures.
FYI, I made the top-most picture in this entry as a quite possible cover picture for a quite possible photo book inasmuch as it does illustrate one of the themes of this maybe project. That is, the fact that "traditional" gas stations are disappearing due to the fact that corporate America has decided that "super"-10-12 pump-it-yourself gas pumps-gas stations accompanied by a "mini" mart-to include a made-to-order deli, seating booths, a very modest grocery selection, and every candy, junk food known to humankind and a slection of a zillion bottles of carbonated soda, water, and, of corse, beer, are what Americans want.
The picture in question has an abandoned and stripped bare former gas station in the foreground with a "super" gas station directly behind it across the street. Sorta a living and the dead picture.