The Luxor Garage
It doesn’t happen often, but, now and then, I see myself unwillingly practicing a kind of urban archeology. Most of the time, it happens around the contested territories of «street art» where the push and pull of prominence is delivered without mercy and erasure is a common activity. It’s only rarely that I’m surprised by another kind of loss, one that usually we consider out of that perpetually unsolved conflict. The rarest of cases takes place when, in addition, one has taken casual documentation of the lost object months or years before, and, in a kind of awakening scenario, one looks dumbfounded at what it’s now its absence. It happened the other day on «carrer de Neptú». The Luxor Garage is no longer standing. I remember taking a few shots of the great typography that announced its services.
The Luxor Garage at carrer de Neptú, Barcelona