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Hovering above the Houstonian entertainment district are fragmentary images, the visual traces of an automobile fetish. Richmond Avenue contains several 'billboard goddesses', but this is the most powerful: she is provocative, suggestive, and unrealistic at the same time.
As dusk creeps over the landscape, Houston becomes submerged in a world of artificial light. Signs, billboards, street lights, and cars combine to create a dynamic flow of nighttime activity and attention.
A panoramic view of the landscape surrounding Richmond Avenue. This is the heart and soul of the Houstonian world, a synthesis of entertainment, pleasure, shopping, dining, and even residential activity.
Houston is defined by the automobile. The superhighway is the dominant feature of the cityscape, and curves its way through years of history and decay. Mechanical flows are impersonal, kept separate from social interaction and experience.
Another 'strip goddess' who dominates the Houstonian skyline. She is divorced from the ground, smiling forever against the sun and the moon. Silent, beautiful, radiant beauty designed for the sole purpose of selling tequila. |
