The original version of this is a stencil, meant to be a mini protest
against strip malls in our culture. It’s one thing to have little stores
here and there. It’s another thing to base entire neighborhoods
around commercial developments, like they do in cities all over the
US. In so many American cities, there’s a main drag that’s not
community or reunion based, but one mass of malls after another.
Strip malls are just another way of keeping this society commercially
based. Instead of building downtown areas that are based on a
community feeling, we have these ugly blocks of concrete that
promote the competitive, consumerist vibe. Gross. They strip our
neighborhoods of culture, defame the earth, and pollute beautiful
plots of land with nasty parking lots! Instead of building these
sprawled out chunks of capitalist depots, why not build a downtown
area where people can stroll and unify rather than drive and
disconnect?
The beautiful woman is a metaphor for a dressed up, base level,
consumerist appealing plot of land dressed up and made to look like
it is going to satisfy something in you when you buy from one of it's
stores...so in this one...beautiful young woman=mall....and when you
strip both of them down, they're just matter...but with all our human
conceptions tacked on...they're made to be something completely
different than what they really are...I believe lust and consumerism
stem from the same need based vacuum in your brain and spirit...so
to me, whether you dress up a piece of land or a human with ideals
and fantasies, the result is the same...you strip yourself and the
other thing of their core essence.
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