To El Paso Again (2019): Texas Ladies' Room Art Exhibit Continued

I-10 Texas rest area artwork, buffalo soldier. January 2019.

Between my transitional temporary home in South Louisiana to my next transitional temporary home in El Paso, my bladder offered me more opportunities for artistic stops at Texas rest areas.


On I-10, somewhere between Houston and El Paso, a buffalo soldier greeted me in the ladies' room.

In other Texas rest area stops:

• On the Way to El Paso (2016): Plein Air Pee
• On the Way to Louisiana (2017): Rest in Beauty

I-10 Texas rest area artwork, buffalo soldier. January 2019.

I have deep appreciation for government agents who understand how art and beauty expand the quality of life of those they serve.

On the Way to Louisiana: Rest in Beauty

Chamber County Rest Area, Interstate 10, Texas. September 2017.

Ohh, Texas has some glorious rest areas.

The Chambers County Rest Area is one of them.

The ladies' room threw sparkle on my little soul as soon as I walked in. What a cheery surprise.

Chamber County Rest Area, Interstate 10, Texas. September 2017.

Is this not a living testament to the Declaration of Independence's ideal of our inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? And the power of a government to share beauty, and therefore the pursuit of happiness, with its peoples?

We can choose to share beauty in anything, right? Including a public bathroom alongside a highway?

Yes.

There is even a human-engineering logic behind it.