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Year: 2025
Size: 5 × 7 inches
Display: Framed
Medium: Watercolor
Another Day at Third and Logan is inspired by the crashes I regularly witness near the intersection where I live. It is incredible how often drivers collide with other vehicles, street signs, and objects that have never moved. The scene is exaggerated and cartoonish, but the behavior behind it is completely real.
The burning vehicle represents what can happen when someone mentally leaves the road before physically arriving at their destination. Phones, stress, work, relationships, and the constant noise of everyday life compete for our attention. People continue moving forward while looking everywhere except where they are going.
The bent Logan Avenue sign turns the intersection into part of the victim. It stands in the same place every day, yet somehow becomes involved in the chaos created around it. The smiling and distorted vehicle adds dark humor, presenting another serious accident as though it were simply part of the neighborhood’s daily routine.
The small scale of the painting contrasts with the size of the destruction. A moment of distraction may appear insignificant, but it can instantly produce consequences much larger than the decision that caused them.
Another Day at Third and Logan is ultimately about more than distracted driving. It represents how easily we can crash into something obvious when we become consumed by everything happening inside our own minds. Sometimes the world is not moving too quickly. Sometimes we are simply no longer paying attention to it.
Year: 2025
Size: 5 × 7 inches
Display: Framed
Medium: Watercolor
Another Day at Third and Logan is inspired by the crashes I regularly witness near the intersection where I live. It is incredible how often drivers collide with other vehicles, street signs, and objects that have never moved. The scene is exaggerated and cartoonish, but the behavior behind it is completely real.
The burning vehicle represents what can happen when someone mentally leaves the road before physically arriving at their destination. Phones, stress, work, relationships, and the constant noise of everyday life compete for our attention. People continue moving forward while looking everywhere except where they are going.
The bent Logan Avenue sign turns the intersection into part of the victim. It stands in the same place every day, yet somehow becomes involved in the chaos created around it. The smiling and distorted vehicle adds dark humor, presenting another serious accident as though it were simply part of the neighborhood’s daily routine.
The small scale of the painting contrasts with the size of the destruction. A moment of distraction may appear insignificant, but it can instantly produce consequences much larger than the decision that caused them.
Another Day at Third and Logan is ultimately about more than distracted driving. It represents how easily we can crash into something obvious when we become consumed by everything happening inside our own minds. Sometimes the world is not moving too quickly. Sometimes we are simply no longer paying attention to it.