Once There Were Parking Lots: Chloe Early – “Rainbow Ruins” at Corey Helford Gallery

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Once There Were Parking Lots: Chloe Early – “Rainbow Ruins” at Corey Helford Gallery

The last studio album the Talking Heads ever made included a song called “Nothing But Flowers.” The protagonist of the song describes a post-industrial landscape in which Mother Earth, having reached the limit of her tolerance, has sprung full bloom in retaliation, blanketing our shopping malls and skyscrapers with trees, rivers, and daisies. The man…