Cityscapes

After a U-District art walk, Chris watched the Seattle skyline from the Mountaineering Club on the Graduate Hotel rooftop. A crisp image was deliberately defocused in the studio, making the city both recognizable and unknowable.

The Modern Snack Bar has been part of Aquebogue since 1950, close to where Chris grew up. Its iconic midcentury sign was photographed from Main Road on an October evening.

Leaving an art walk in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood, Chris was struck by the momentary emptiness of Pike Place and its angular neon jutting in different lines and angles.

On an architecture tour in the Twin Palms neighborhood, a retro Atomic Age home revealed a collection of midcentury cars, including this 1958 Oldsmobile Super 88 in Turquoise Mist.

During a visit to the Olympic Peninsula, this station just east of downtown Sequim was an obvious subject. Chris’s father worked for Texaco for almost twenty years.

On a solo cross-country drive in August 2020, a stop for gas revealed this station instead. It recalled Edward Hopper’s Gas and Chris’s father’s nearly twenty years working for Texaco.