BuildingScape: Flooring It
Click to enlarge. Photo by Walker DeVille
There’s a reason parking garages figure so prominently in the story lines of so many murder mysteries, horror movies and comedies (there was a whole “Seinfeld” episode about being stuck in one). Parking garages are full of ominous, empty spaces late at night. Plus, when you are being pursued by (take your pick) zombies, the police state, the murderous ancient cabal that secretly runs the world, a parking garage is a good place to duck into or race out of and lose their trail. But parking garages (like this one at the corner of Virginia and McFarland streets in Charleston, W.Va.) are also real-world epistemological representations of the multiple layers of reality and our ability to travel among diferent dimensions of experience. I actually have no idea what that means, but have always wanted to use the word epistemological in this blog. Plus, in the web video age, you have a new breed of “Parking Garage Moron” videos.
