Chad McCail is the artist who created these art pieces. He looks into the future. .
Just imagine what it would be like to live in a small box in a row of boxes, in a tight knit community of friendly neighbours. Everyone could work together and share the vegetables from the communal plot. There would be a little park and a playground. No need to go far because everything you need would be close by. Don't need a car, you could walk everywhere.
In and out of each others boxes. Always someone to lend a hand.
There could be a municipal building which houses the hospital, the doctors surgery, the dentist, the Police Force, the Council, and any other organisation which you might need from time to time.
There might be some work in a nearby factory. It will be inside a building and no one would have access to it, because most of the work will be done by robots.
The production line produces tanks, so it would be top secret. The revenue from selling these tanks around the world will top up the already rich bank accounts of those on a mission to acquire more land thus becoming more powerful. There they are leaving the factory and heading for a waiting aircraft to start their journey across the globe. Security of the site is paramount. Trees will be planted for screening.
Not quite sure what to think about this ? Are you being pessimistic about this or happily willing to embrace these concepts?
ReplyDeleteMy resolve is still the same. I will not change sides.
DeleteReminded me of, Little boxes on a hillside little boxes made of ticky tacky and they all look just the same. Song.
ReplyDeleteJ.
Yes I remember that song.
DeleteAnd the people in the houses
All went to the university
And there's doctors and lawyers
And business executives
And they all play on the golf course
And drink their martinis dry
And the children go to summer camp
And the boys go into business
And marry and raise a family
And so on. . . . . . .
Interesting story behind the song.
DeletePerhaps his best-loved song is ‘Little Boxes’, recorded and released in 1963. However, Seeger did not actually write the song that satirised the kind of low-cost/poor-quality houses that were being built in the second half of the 20th Century. Rather, it was written by the folk singer-songwriter and political activist Malvina Reynolds.
During the Second World War, the number of houses being built in the United States was close to zero. However, William J. Levitt created the notion of mass housing in the country. He had originally tried to make the idea work back in the 1920s, but after the war, it really kicked into gear.
When the song was popularised in 1963, by Pete Seeger, the American consciousness awoke to the kind of manipulative building that had been going on behind their backs, which became all the more evident when those ‘Little Boxes’ began to crumble.
Read the full story in Far Out.
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/story-behind-pete-seeger-little-boxes/