A few weeks ago I was looking through the work of Mark Steinmetz with awe and then recently American Suburb X happened to post this summation of his work by Doug Rickard. I was drawn to Mark’s work and Doug has most definitely hit the nail on the head. A few excerpts:
“The gray that blankets the whole town, that blankets the woods, that shadows the sky, that creeps into the open areas… does this gray work its way into them or them into it? And the black tar, the rubber smells and oil stained driveways, the metal roofs and the ugly concrete porches… the dead end jobs, the tangled trees and the rotting leaves… there to reflect what exists behind the eyes or do the eyes tell the tale of these things, these places… the stories that speak from these objects.”
“The broken wills and the lost hopes, the disappearing dreams of the growing young blanketed over by the failures of the calloused common. The average man doing average dead end things and their average dead end streets. The emptiness inhabiting the empty places, the gray blanketing the living… the streets and the trash, their homes and no cash, their blocks and their dead ends.”
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