GARAGE DARK

 

A good parking garage can make the day, especially if they are well designed and close to popular venues. Many though are dark places, often ill planned and underused. Every crime drama seems to have one, the infamous garage scene. Candy Man, Fargo, Death Sentence, Terminator and Furious 7. 

While your in them, you can imagine most anything. Shapes and sounds pull at your mind. Shopping center garages often sit largely empty for most of the year, only to fill to the edges during Xmas shopping season, adding to the uneasiness of them.

Few have the smoothness and finery of the building they serve. The contractor leaving rough marks, the architect making it the last thing they design. Over the years, some become blights on the city, no longer serving any purpose. Still the ones that do still work are indispensable. 

Developers are always cautioned to not pay the contractor until the garage is finished. Good advice, as many look like they are not. The darkness is not a friend of the camera. Still the study of a garage yields surprises in shapes and texture. Light dances in between floors, the sounds of cars a rhythmic. So you learn to appreciate their roughness. You wonder how the mind of the architect could ever have put one together. Over time, your camera embraces all this and more importantly even, you remember where you parked your car.