Die Indecline Crew hat in der kalifornischen Mojave Wüste ein riesiges Graffito auf eine alte Landebahn gemalt. Das Piece, das die Worte „This Land Was Our Land.“ schreibt, ist rund 910 Meter lang und 10 Meter breit. Laut der Indecline Crew ist es damit das größte illegale Graffito der Welt. Ob das stimmt, weiß ich nicht, ist aber auch nicht relevant. Beindruckend ist die Arbeit alle mal.
Riesige Graffiti und Murals, die auf dem Boden gemalt sind und nur aus der Luft komplett betrachtet werden können, sind gerade ziemlich en vogue in der Urban Art Szene. In den letzten Wochen hatten wir zum Beispiel das weltgrößte animierte Graffiti-Gif oder das 4.500 qm große Floor Mural von 1010 hier auf dem Blog.
„When Woody Guthrie penned “This Land is Our Land” in February of Nineteen Forty, the frontier still felt freshly settled and, despite the recent Depression, there was still a prevailing sense of national optimism. Which led us right into the Second Great War, the Atomic Bomb, the Cold War, national paranoia and Red-baiting, the eventual rise of the Corporate State in patriotic opposition to Communism, and finally, as a result of rampant overconsumption, our latest existential crisis of species: Global Warming. We thought, in lieu of all this, that Woody might be due for an update, so we found a decommissioned 3000-by-65-foot runway from an old World War II bomb-testing site, got together a few of our buddies, and made a monument to our rather precarious times.
This Land Was Our Land—both literally, in the sense that acres of remote desert were used up and discarded by our government in order to improve our ability to drop bombs on people in far off lands (who constitute a threat just because they peddle a different set of ideals than us;) and also figuratively, as in we as a species are presently embroiled in the constantly accelerating process of using up and discarding this planet as a whole. It was ours, and it easily could be ours again. The only thing that needs to change is that we take responsibility for it. Fight on, Indecline.“
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