As a young child, I always remembered seeing the Sinclair gas stations on our many travels back and forth to Utah. There were several of these gas stations all over the roads of Utah, from the rural areas to the cities. The sign always caught my attention. I was constantly intrigued by the sign because it had what looked like a baby brontosaurus on it. Of course, as a dinosaur fan I paid attention to it. Years later I learned that fossil fuels were formed by plants and animals that came before dinosaurs. So the sign showed an inaccurate correlation between a dinosaur and fossil fuel. So the painting depicts dinosaurs existing on the Navajo reservation in a time line that does not compute just as the Sinclair sign with the brontosaurus doesn’t.
Ryan Singer
