BIG PINE KEY NEIGHBORS

As an ex-home builder and Architecture admirer and practitioner along with Jimmy Buffet, the sprouting of trailers (or tin cans) along the Florida Keys are as offensive to the landscape as trashed out front yards with the usual old trucks, cars, lawnmowers etc. Although never as offensive as some other architectural creations by pseudo Architects pretending to practice the art, those structures in the Florida Keys are uglier than the trailers, therefore not deserving the craft of artful preservation.

In trying to find the romantic side of those tin cans and front yards I am dedicating some watercolors to them before the next category 5 hurricane takes them away to the Gulf of Mexico and then we will only be left with those concrete monsters that will hopefully, eventually some day be swallowed by the native Giant Gumbo Limbos and Buttonwood trees. JZ January 13, 2014

'Waterfront Single Wide with Guest Quarters' Big Pine Key

 

 

'Neighborhood Tin Can' Big Pine Key

 

'Coconuts' No Name Key (not a qualifying Tin Can)