Excerpt: "I, THE INSENTIENT. STAND BEFORE 1000 SUNS."

 

"If there is a fascination with the inanimate, it would be of its three dimensional aspect of a fixed, yet lifeless form and through the human imagination, given life.  A purpose. Which holds a significance that is our self centered viewpoint of reality.  In all of our hopes and fears, while used to establish that reasoning for human motivation.   Such were the Nevada ‘nuke’ test site mannequins of 1955, when the American military tested Atomic Bombs and were commissioned to build mock towns in and around test sites to assess the aftereffects of a nuclear detonation.   Streets were lined with telegraph poles, gardens and houses with families residing inside, all to represent of what was deemed, in its ironic conception, the Nuclear Family of the 1950s, except they were plastic mannequins, dressed and styled to reflect the everyday American household of a new decade.

Yet, this assembly line of prefabrication to which the mannequin had been created from, was within a dawn of the nuclear age, a hope of technological freedom that also ensured the fear of complete destruction from nuclear annihilation.  These configurations, in their feigned normality, held an absurdity of its function, as though their azoic appearances were mocking us, their biological creators..."

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Full article: https://chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2022/06/i-insentient-stand-before-1000-suns.html

(A.Glass 2021)