7-Color Serigraph, 100% cotton paper, 620 Limited Edition, Dated: 1988, Printer: Seriphics
 
By 1984 the Monterey Bay Aquarium (40 million dollars) was at one end of the Row, and The Monterey Plaza Hotel (60 million dollars) was on the other. Developers were gobbling up the spaces in between. The abandoned canneries had many bouts with mysterious fires, all the while the city was trying to decide the merits of their historical value. This image of a bulldozer about to demolish one of the last original canneries, after a suspicious fire, signals the end of an era... A time after the reckless slaughter of fish, romanticized in the intensely human and colorful novels by John Stienbeck... and a time before the corporate commercialism of Cannery Row. It was an era of inner reflection set against a backdrop of quiet abandon...