The End of an Era Painting

I enjoy painting landscapes, and mostly accompany them with a sense of human occupation somehow. I love the contrast of beauty vs destruction or perhaps especially now during these times of how people want to connect deeper with nature but somehow must always leave their mark upon it. I grew up going to drive in movies and have fond memories of them. Today there are a lot of abandoned ones, and the ones that do survive are almost a novelty rather than a destination for some. This painting is about that loss of a time when people connected in person, before the age of social media when you were truly present for these activities instead of just going to them to post your latest endeavors online. It also is a representation of just how much things have changed. You used to either have to go to a cinema or the drive in to actually see the new movies, now you can just watch them online or on the phone instead. The experience that accompanied the action is gone but not forgotten.