Ed Ruscha, 26 Gas Stations

Bibliophilic enigma

The conjunction of word and image in which the reader is meant to divine a moral meaning

Or not

26 Gas Stations
The future in 1962

Prelapsarian intellectual spaces
Underwhelmed by the Grandeur of Antique Ruins
Transit points for holy relics of techno-utopianism 

Destined to be

Ruinenwert of a thousand days
Enough time for rust to do it’s work