August 5, 2007
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Art Rage Challenge, In the City
http://www.xanga.com/Art_Rage_Challenge
The topic for the month of August is:
“In the city”
I think about Man and who he is, a lot.
In Short form: Man began in less than caves, foraging for food. Life, always being dangerous, he was motivated to form family groups for safety in numbers. These family groups moved into caves? for shelter.
Most men / women being somewhat lacking in the art of independence, allowed the someone with the bigger fist and the bigger mouth to take over group thinking. Eventually, weaker members were pushed into hovels to work as serfs for he who became the feudal master who continually took most of what Man and his family worked so hard to produce, leaving them poor and hungry and at the mercy of his masterly whims.
Man accepted his servitude, not totally willing, always plotting his escape from his conditions. His conditions included doing all menial work, the building the soldiering, the planting, the harvesting and the cooking and cleaning and weaving and sewing and washing with a Masters whip and threats of punishment at his back. Landlords, kings and the church all placed their own worth above that of the general population, getting rich from the unfairly paid masses, servitude.
Eventually, man managed some independence by successful rioting and being thus removed from their slaveries, developed little spots of plenty for himself all over the globe. When Man decided it was too difficult to manage his independent fight for survival or that he wanted “MORE”, he went back to the cities to work for the same greedy tyrants who man had built them for, to do again, the things of servitude.
Man’s gain by doing this, nothing more than his rent on this earth which he pays from the day he is born until the day he dies.
Generally speaking,
Man went from caves
(Photo: a cave in a park near Ashland, Kentucky USA)
to lush green fields
(Photo: fields near Gallena, Illinois USA)
and this, Master of his own domain
(Photo: also Gallena, Illinois USA)
leaving it
For this dirty, smoky, choking, crowded, dangerous cityscape.
(Photo: Chicago, Illinois USA)
And this. (Photo: Chicago, Illinois USA taken from Sears Tower)
Think about it. Man “in the city”, INTRIGUING!
See my other challenge entries for the week from PictureHeaven ”Textures and Patterns“
Weekly_Photo_Challenge “Magnificent Buildings“
Keep on taking those photos,
Comments (9)
Very striking shots. Amazing how with a few photos you took us from there to here. Thanks very much for your comments.
Great use of shots to illustrate.
*sparkle
And we keep on doing it , going round and round: Nicly illustrated story , I’m going to see what i can come up with for this one,
Heavens above! You certainly have an artistic flare with these challenges. I feel as if I could step out on the roof ang join John there looking down on the remainder of the city. Wowee!
Very thought provoking.
What a great post!! Wonderful photos as always.
Great pics for this challenge! Love the pic from the Sears Tower. Hubby and I were there but it cost enough that we chose not to go up. Now I wish we had bit the bullet and put our $ on the counter! I love the peacefulness of the country but after living in the city for many years I learned how to find peace anywhere, even in the city.
Well put together! I’d forgotten this challenge was on.
ryc: That was an unusual spate of fatalities at the local air shows, I can only remember one accident at a show being reported in this country and that was years ago. I can understand that it puts you off going!
Awesome pics. John is very photogenic. Loved all the sites and your comments. Wonderful