"The newest elements in the landscape have not yet been rubbed on enough to make them interesting to me."
Artifacts from the Vernacular Urban Landscape by Peter Calvin
“Working primarily in downtown Dallas, Texas, I have been looking at signs and text (particularly the hand-painted), small, marginal and/or closed businesses, parking lot kiosks and pay boxes, and I am beginning to look at the other spaces and resources we set aside for automobiles, and how the city is designed to accommodate them. I am often attracted to the obsolete, cast aside, neglected and repurposed elements of the 20th century landscape that are disappearing. And among these elements, I often find some unintended beauty. It has been a bit like doing archeology in the present, thinking about what may need to be documented for the future, what artifacts to save and to catalog…”