Converted Arizona Gas Station Home Colour Photography
Household Objects Along a Low Facade Beneath Cloudy Sky
This former Arizona gas station had been converted into a home when I photographed it. What interested me was the collection of objects along the front: a chest of drawers, a small bicycle, a ladder and tall cylinders beside the windows. They give the low building a particular character, making the frontage more than a simple row of doors and openings.
The architecture stays close to the ground, with a nearly level roofline and a broad area of bare earth in front. A red-brown door sits near the centre, while curtains cover some windows and boards cover others. I like the differences between those sections. They prevent the long facade from feeling uniform, even though the building’s overall shape is straightforward. The weathered cream wall connects them through a shared colour and texture.
A tall antenna rises above the roof near the right side, its fine horizontal lines standing against blue sky. Darker clouds gather across the left, giving the upper part of the photograph a different rhythm from the building below. My colour view keeps the muted browns and creams of the frontage alongside that stronger blue. The objects, worn surfaces and antenna are the details I wanted to retain together. They turn a modest building into a scene with plenty to look at, while the open foreground gives its long, low outline room within the frame.
© Dan Kosmayer, 2010
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