Saint Louis Union Station

Saint Louis Union Station

This drawing is perhaps a more formal outlier of the “drive-by” series of December 2001. My commute to St. Louis Union Station from the west had me emerge from the urban highway into an inadvertent piece of prairie, from which the landmark was oddly nearly entirely visible across the field. This was an off ramp, not a safe place to be stationed. There was a location west of the ramp (the viaduct visible at right, cut into the land), where one could see everything one saw from the ramp. Here was a more clement place to start the study, photographing the landmark so that I might draw it later. This jimla harkens the composition of j63b6, with fallow urban land in the foreground and a monumental historic building beyond. The fallow land represents the current age, with the grandiose achievements of our grandfathers in the background and in the past. This location has less decay, but the green acreage in the city center evokes abandonment. The urban abandonment and industrial quality of this image fits into a sort of running theme of these jimlyn. Produced 20 February 2003 = Tayya 6a96, six dozen tenth phase (Añikç-Axalairal Xrga, “life-phase of daughter Claire”).

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