This image sums up a lot. The mosaic of writing above the shopping cart says "real world". That combined with the illegaly parked shopping cart provide an interesting intersection of the beauty and poverty which compete for attention in the "real world." Beauty, often synonomous with money, is constantly creating murals and mosaics, rules and redistriticting,trying to rid the world of unsightliness. And poverty, continually rearing its unsightly head, with its homelessness and graffiti, slums and trash, keeps encroaching on the "beauty" of the world that the rich try to create. This type if beauty, one that ignores reality, is a false beauty.
Taking a step further back reveals that this is just part of the phrase the mosaic spells out. The whole thing reads "art is the center of the real world." So, if there is any truth in the photo, the cliched mosaic quote, and the placement of it in a poor neighborhood, then it must also be that art exists everywhere someone is digging into and exposing the difficult reality we find ourelves in. Art exists when we cut through the false beauty and see the truth in what surrounds us.
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glad you're blogging more
Can't see the image.
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