If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to live in cartoon, consider visiting Limerick, Ireland—where a street artist recently turned a broken down gas station into a full-fledged color party.
Maser, a globally known Irish graffiti artist, calls the finished work “No.27: A Nod to Ed Ruscha.” That nod, of course, is in the direction of Ruscha’s famous pop art masterpiece “Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas” from 1963. It’s just a nod, though. Whereas Ruscha worked with a limited color palette and a certain dose of realism, Maser went nuts with bold colors and stripes. Even the cars are coated in bright paint:
Here’s the gas station before Maser went to work on it:
Maser himself told the local paper that he “creates work that surprises people and questions their relationship with the familiar and the norm, also how dissociated we are from the space around us.” He added, “Questioning this is a positive thing.”
Welp, there’s no question about this transformation. It’s simply brilliant. [Street Art News, Limerick Leader]
And of course, the inspiration:
Ed Ruscha’s “Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas” (1963)
