Did I ever show you this painting? If you didn't come to 2011's "The Blame Game Show", in Philadelphia, then I probably didn't. Sorry about that, but where were you? I was totally waiting for you. No harsh feelings.
"Truck Stop, Motel 9 and Cell Phone Tower" is an acrylic painting on wood panel, of highway advertising and bric-a-brac, the bric-a-brac in this case being a cell phone tower. The Motel 9 sign is a combination of old mock-fancy motel/hotel/dining establishment signs you'd see from the road, kind of a Best Western-Motel 6 (I flipped the 6! How clever! What? Not so much, OK, fine, then)-Arby's-plastic and lights hybrid dealie. Cell phone towers are just creepy and gross-looking, if you really look at them, so I made this one kind of sympathetic. At least this one doesn't pretend to be a tree. It's also kind of yeti-ish.
I like how very manufactured highway signage sometimes pretends to be fancy and regal, like most old signs in Vegas try to look. Like, wow!, what a fancy desert circus! Anyway, that's fancy Motel 9. Truck Stop's just open 24 hours, like the generic star in an oval logo of our collective travel dreams.
I guess I like ugly highway signs, against my better judgment. Like, bad for bucolic country drives, but good for art. I think I'll put it here.
Update: It's now live in the Store.
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