The Gas Station Observatory is the brainchild of The Gentleman and The Scholar, an installation grounded on the pursuit of our best selves. We lost ourselves in the quicksand of fear and found safety in our inability to take responsibility for our lives. This is a place to share the rambling road we’re all on as we try to figure out how to use our maps.
When I was a kid, my favorite book was called The monster at the end of the book. It was a Sesame Street book, and the premise is that Grover is deathly afraid of the monster at the end of the book. So every page he pours cement, sets wood, pastes glue, does anything he…