The petrol station is an important icon in the landscape and in the future hopefully the amount of them that are in use will begin to decline. Can we transform them into monuments that remind us of their original use.
'Ruscha's work holds the mirror up to the banality of urban life and gives order to the barrage of mass media-fed images and information that confronts us daily.'
I like the idea of creating an installation within the environment that interrupts the balinisation of the city environment, by providing something for the pedestrian in the specific area of Vauxhall which is primarily designed around the vehicle.
Ed Ruscha, Standard Station 1966.
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