Freddie's Market is a neighborhood grocery store just steps from my home in Webster Groves. Freddie's son, Larry, and his wife, Kathy, own it now. Our sons were close friends in elementary school. I've driven or walked by this place a thousand times. It's just part of my enviornment.
So last weekend I was wandering abound in one of those I'm bored, I have no ideas but damn I need some pictures moods. I drove by the store lit with beautiful late afternoon sun. The graphic strength and simplicity reminded me of art based on words, numerals and symbols like the Demuth 5, the work of Robert Indiana and the person who is probably my favorite contemporary artist, Jenny Holzer. The medium is the message and vice versa.
So last weekend I was wandering abound in one of those I'm bored, I have no ideas but damn I need some pictures moods. I drove by the store lit with beautiful late afternoon sun. The graphic strength and simplicity reminded me of art based on words, numerals and symbols like the Demuth 5, the work of Robert Indiana and the person who is probably my favorite contemporary artist, Jenny Holzer. The medium is the message and vice versa.
