Produced by Bill Kelley
Reported by Statewide Correspondent Bill Kelley

Architecture is considered to be an art and sometimes artists take inspiration from the buildings themselves and turn them back into art of a different form. Allan Tubach, one of Nebraska's best known painters, not only often uses the unique facades of old buildings as subjects, but the art work also has something to say about how cities change.
[Tubach]"This came about as a sort of walk around downtown Lincoln with the old telephone company building is the window there.
Sometimes I bend things to fit a specific preconceived notion.
And sometimes just by virtue of the fact that I do work a lot with reflections, you kind of rely on the
reflections to give you a wonderfully warped view of things.
It gives you another dimension. Not only are you seeing what you're seeing, but you're seeing things coming back at you and it gives you an opportunity to get into lots of edges, lots of additional possibilities for shapes and forms and to just extend the concept of the story even further.
It's true of almost everything I do. I'm story telling, I'm gathering. I do a lot of gathering of parts and then reassemble.
It has to do with this not knowing what form it's going to take. That's part of the excitement and the fun of it, really.
I've always considered architecture to be a real art and probably had I not been an artist, I would have gone into architecture.
But I'm particularly interested in historical architecture. That for me becomes a real strong statement about our culture and whether we choose to save our history or whether we choose to destroy it. It tells us something I think about the kind of people we are. Probably a real good case in point is the one of Omaha.
It's a window from the old public library, one of the many author's windows. It's a statement that I feel strongly about having to do with the suburban sprawl that Omaha has itself involved in, and increasingly we tend to abandon some of these historical structures that make a city interesting and give it its character.
That bothers me. We seem to be headed towards this sort of faceless, one size fits all, everything is the same kind of city where super stores reign and quite frankly, I don't think a lot of people come to cities to see super stores.
I think it's more a matter of whatever is suiting you at the moment in terms of what is grabbing you.
Chances are a month from now I will drive out into western Nebraska and get all turned on by the Sandhills again. That could happen tomorrow."