2018 Carriage Factory • ‘Grain Station’ and ‘Penthouse of the Planes’

The elevators tower above the wheat fields of Cheyenne County, watching and waiting in the hot Kansas wind, for the filled wheat trucks to come to in to the grain station. Buildings of cones, cylinders, boxes, circles line up along the parallel rail tracks, waiting for the trains to come and stop at the grain station in Bird City.

 

High above the Great American Plains, the penthouse stands, formed by lines, shapes and planes that soar upward above the plains. The corrugated skin is tattered in the harsh elements of the forgotten corner of the the high plains of Cheyenne County, Kansas.