ant farm
downtown chicago feels like a giant ant farm.
although it's quite incredible, i'm finding it very unnerving.
the disconnection from the 'real world': lives lived in luxury high rises separated from nature feels disturbingly synthetic.
similar in some ways to vegas but physically different.
it's WAY too tidy for a city.
there's almost no graffiti or any other signs of civil disobedience: no traces of 'people' other than the sight of those all dressed the same: shopping, shopping SHOPPING.
and eating.
(lots of fat people in chicago)
there is a homeless(?) beggar on each street corner but no signs of where they sleep.
the homeless on the street corners are the only people who appear to be dressing like individuals.
EVERYONE else is wearing the same clothes from one of 30 ish high street shops that sell versions of the same thing.
jakob said that spray cans are illegal in chicago.
i know i'm not communicating my feelings for this place eloquently in words.
colony
according to the ads, apartments in blocks like this go from $752,000 to $7.5m
however luxury these apartments are, the idea of living in this way is incomprehensible to me.
the opposite of (my) life living in a 400yr old farmhouse in the english countryside surrounded by fields and animals.
it seems SO detached from the ground these buildings stand on.
unnatural.
maybe country living is getting to me?
but i don't think this style of housing is good for people.
maybe i'm going 'prince charles' on modern architecture...?
na:
i love modern architecture.
but
conformity=death
and i don't want to live like an ant
i feel like screaming...
indeed
i actually found a little bit of art (stuck to the sidewalk)
we're clearly not in bristol
the only other little 'opinion piece' i found all day.
i have no idea what 'end torture in illinois' is all about.
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