GAS TANK CITY - Andrew Holmes

Andrew Holmes' big passion is the mobile armature that sustains the artificial oasis that is Los Angeles, or rather the lines of transportation that artificially maintain the city across the harsh surrounding desert. Against the backdrop of the wide open skies of California, Holmes' photo realistically drawn tanks and trailers become larger than life. Reality is enhanced through colour pencil. The obsessive, compulsive reading of the transit steel architecture pumping through the urban desert reflects Holmes' insatiable urge to document, analyse, record and classify. His aim is to catch a glimpse of the fetishes of blue collar America, the classical Kenworth truck, the baroque curve of the stainless container and the pearlised gleam of the custom car. The lovingly embellished mass- produced objects become stand- ins for their owners.

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Pencil on paper

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