This morning, in my Seattle neighborhood breakfast venue, I had a flashback. The outdoor umbrellas became in mind’s eye, the spectacular Parasol of Seville, Spain.
Because I have been both places, literal form became abstract, functional became stylistic, and I reinterpreted both places with new appreciation.
Through such urban gestalts, the vernacular can easily become the spectacular.
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