STORE FACADES

In Store Facades, I’m reimagining small-town American business districts, focusing on the dust, decay and dereliction found in the suburban rust-belt towns where I’ve often lived. Many of these ex-downtowns are forgotten but charismatic by the residual evidence of their past; time has fused the new with the old with repurposed stores, mismatched signage, and chips of paint several layers thick. Individual stores in a block have been built, destroyed, and given new facades; now we are left with ghost towns of incongruous buildings and vacant lots. The past may be visible and tangible, yet it is inescapably gone.