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The fifth series employs modified cliches drawn from advertising to create pointed one-liners that find often ominous associations with landscape actions and treatments.
18 encourages the viewer to take some sort of action, emphasizing the use of the landscape as an arena of often revolutionary "street" action and activism. The what that is to be saved remains undefined.
19 comments upon the strong connection in America between self- identity and the automobile, and by extension, the suburb and the government subsidized freeway system which generated the "American Dream" accessible only to certain class and race identities.
20 literalizes the landscape as a stage on which actions unfold, often with destructive results. The anxiety of acting and establishing a cultural identity on and through the landscape emerges as a source of conflict and violence.
21 evokes the exploitive actuality of a consumer culture while suggesting the jealously-inducing inequalities between those who "have" and "have not" access to landscape resources.